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“I wish I could, but I don’t want to.”

“I wish I could, but I don’t want to.”

Gravity's holding me back.

Feb 10, 2024
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Hi! I’m Keris. I’m a bestselling author writing about books and writing and life, and the last song I listened to was You Make Me Wanna by Usher, because he popped up in a sitcom I’m watching with my 15yo who said he didn’t know any of Usher’s music. Turned out he did.

So. Writing is hard.

I have so much to do. And I want to do it! Whenever I’m not doing it, I want to do it. And then when it’s time to do it?

But I have to. It’s all becoming urgent. And while in the past I’ve said that it’s not that I work better with a deadline, it’s that I only work with a deadline, I’m not feeling so great about it.

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