{"id":89145,"date":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=89145"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","slug":"the-other-thing-thats-happened-with-writing-is-that-im-not-afraid-it-will-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=89145","title":{"rendered":"The Other Thing That\u2019s Happened With Writing Is That I\u2019m Not Afraid It Will Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left\">The other thing that\u2019s happened with writing is that I\u2019m not afraid it will go away.<br \/>\nUp until a couple of years ago, I feared that sitting down with paper and pencil revealed too much desire and that for such ambition I would be punished. My vocabulary would contract anorexia, ideas would be born autistic, even titles would not come to flirt with me anymore. I suppose this was tied to that internal judge, the serpent who eats her own tail. She insinuates you\u2019re not good enough; you believe her and try less, ratifying her assessment; so you try even less; and on and on. This snake survives on your dying. Finally, now, the elided words of my wisest writing teacher, the poet David Wojahn, make sense. \u201cBe ambitious,\u201d he said, \u201cfor the work.\u201d Not for the in-dwelling editor. That bitch was impossible to please anyway.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Marsha L. Larsen<br \/>\n,Friending God- A Woman&#8217;s Quest through a Social Network<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other thing that\u2019s happened with writing is that I\u2019m not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years ago, I feared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivational-quotes","wpcat-405-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}