too soon

She's an absolute mystery.

I feel seen.

It doesn't say "first' tho

That kinda came out wrong Anna :)

Blerg.

wut

Maybe it's because we are all in office hours & on committees.

ARE YOU SERIOUS

same.

The more your work is deemed successful, the louder the cries will become, the more they will fall like leaves on that path until it is hard to even see, just as your own thoughts are hard to hear in the clamor. But you must try to remember that purpose, that self, that path anyway. And do the work.

No, they will be requests to be on panels, juries, to write things that are not the things you were born to write, go on book tours, support other works of art (and sometimes you should), but no one will haunt you to stay on your own path. Every request is a request to you to detour from it.

No one will email you persistently or message or call or text to urge you to do the work that is truest to yourself and deepest within your imagination, the work you set out to do.

Like I often say, if we can send one billionaire to the moon why can't we send them all?

but they were ladies.

I'm sympathetic here but I need some concrete reasons so I can give them to the students.

OMG

WOW!