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When your novel becomes emotionally dangerous to write

I started this novel to explore grief but writing about it every day is making me depressed and I do not know if I should push through

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The therapeutic promise of writing confronts the reality that sustained engagement with pain can retraumatize rather than heal.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The novel — form and possibility?”

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