The Sentence You’re Afraid to Write Is the One That Matters

How writing from a place of discomfort is often the most authentic

Harnessed properly, shame doesn’t have to diminish the creative work but instead it can electrify it. One of the best writing exercises that I engaged in since before I even thought of being a writer was writing dirty stories. I will not tell you how old I was but I was a horny little girl and my first exposure to sex was via literature, namely Justine …