Dear Not Enough: You Are Actually More Than Enough, I Promise

Lit Salon on what is “enough” as a writer + the nagging feeling of falling short + 4 practical ways to make a writing practice work for you, from trust to binge writing to "propping" the door open

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” ~Toni Morrison

One last From the Archive post of 2023! This one touches on the creative resistance and “not-enoughness” that can haunt our creative lives, which I’ve actually written about plenty, including this pos on The Truest Law of Writing & Thoughts on Who Gets to Claim the Title of Writer. But today’s Lit Salon post is free for all, in deepest gratitude here at solstice time. Because I owe a GIANT thank you to every single one of you who has made Writing in the Dark so amazing this past year.

Our community has grown like a weed—and yes, that’s right, I love the idea of weeds and wildflowers, stubborn and persisting, stretching sunward despite imperfect conditions—in our first year, with an particularly stomach-dropping vault since my recent two-part series on what I’ve learned since starting my Substack, and how it grew to 5000 strong (from no platform) in just 12 months. You ca…