As one of my writer clients expressed it, "I want to just shove all my anxieties, that pain and fear, all that crap out the door. Then I could sit down and write."
Bu write about what? Those very feelings we yearn to dispel are the raw materials of our writing, the stuff from which everything we write - including even our desire to write - merges. Rather than shoving them out the door, like unwanted guests who are wrecking the party, I say invite them in. They are the party. Or, rather, there's no party without them.
