The November ‘92 issue of Writer’s Digest magazine sits next to my computer. It's been there for nearly 14 years. The copy is worn, faded, and bookmarked to page 22—my favorite article. It’s titled “Breaking In,” and J. Michael Straczynski (producer/writer for Murder, She Wrote; Babylon 5) says it the best I’ve ever heard....
"Write what scares you. Because we’re all scared. We all want to see someone face that fear and come out the other side alive and whole and better. That’s the writer’s job: To touch passion and not be destroyed by it, then come back to tell the rest of us what it was like....
If you want to go where the rest of us have gone, then sooner or later you will come to your own abyss. When that happens, you’d better be sure what brought you there, because that’s the only thing that will sustain you through the fire and the pain and the darkness....
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