Sitting in Silence

Sitting in Silence

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Sitting in Silence
Sitting in Silence
What we talk about when

What we talk about when

We talk about the weight of writing

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Feb 01, 2022
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Every time we write, we honor the people who told us we’re good at writing. Why then is it so difficult to write sometimes?

Well, we never talk about the weight of writing. Yes. We ramble about what writing means to us, and about our personal histories. Many of us wrote our first stories in Crayon. Or we were encouraged by a kind teacher or relative. But…

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