‘With great difficulty,’ would’ve made for a funny opening and ending line, a suitable dark punchline for a subject rife with potential for futility and misunderstanding. I even thought, if only for a brief moment, of putting the title ‘How I Write’ in quotation marks, as I just did there, and then writing a meta-piece about a writer who is thinking about how he should write—but alas, I will deploy my trickery in a different way. As this blog ages, like a fine wine (one hopes), I push myself into increasingly difficult territories, ones that challenge me deeply in, perhaps, unexpected ways.
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