Issue 41: A reading list on mothers, mothering, women & marriage, mother artists, and choosing not to be a mother
Because I am in my feelings and choosing not to fight it
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I am super close to finishing my shitty first draft and even though I am still writing, I am already starting to feel super nostalgic about this time that I am in right now. It is both magical and painful. The pages are accumulating but they are produced on stolen time - from my husband, from my kid, from my friends, from my yoga studio, from my bed. My brain is on fire but my body is very tired. I was unwrapping my next Moleskin this morning since I will probably get writing in it later today and I started to cry. In this notebook, I will finish writing my first novel. It is not done but I know where it’s going and I am going to finish it very soon. I fucking resolved to become a writer and fucking did it. I became the mother who writes.
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