What sets your hands on fire?

The question that led to this new blog.

One inspiration for this blog is my friend Joy Sullivan. Joy is a poet – and one of my favorite accounts to follow on Instagram.

In one post (which I'm struggling to find but haven't stopped thinking about) Joy encourages us to "write like your hands are on fire."

What a beautiful phrase.

I've been writing for years – but the more time that passed, the more my writing has felt more and more measured.

Slow.

Calculated.

But this call to arms to write like my hands are on FIRE...

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