I couldn’t watch. I can’t stand the sound of that voice. It’s not happening. La-la-la—
So what’s happening instead? Lots of distractions. Dissociation. My inner world writ large. I sank up to my eyeballs into my novel in progress, Hannah & the Fox, and finished a reasonable first draft (hurrah for me!). I have begun on revisions. I still have ideas. It needs to be longer. Scenes play out inside my head. I see an argument that needs to happen.
And so the book gets written, and I jump off zero cliffs. Win-win!
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