fajrdrako | About hoarding...

I love Annie Dillard's writing, especially in Pilgrim and Tinker's Creek. I was delighted to see this quote from her fro

reginaclarejane today:

One of the few things I know about writing is this: shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise later, something better. These things fill in from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.