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Dr. Bronce Rice's avatar

Magdalena - Love this! Working with the negative resistance and finding a way to keep moving forward with our dreams, writing or otherwise. To not let someone else get in the way of finding our own voice and writing it down in the course of our lives.

Thank you!

Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Dear Bronce: thank you for your kind words, and I'm so glad that you loved it! to your point we get to find a way to keep moving forward with our dreams and we get to do it using various tools - one of them can be writing!

Dr. Bronce Rice's avatar

Well said Magdalena! Well said indeed :)

Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Thank you, Bronce!

Gayla Kunis's avatar

You have never fished anything.

Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Dear Gayla: thank you for sharing. Reading this sentence gave me chills - it's so deterministic - you never...it's sounds like such a final verdict. And yet, I am sure you have finished million impactful things in your life!

Patricia Stallings's avatar

I was in college when the words were delivered to me by two different professors.

The first one was after she read an essay: “I know where your background and you’ll never be more than that.” (We came from the same town.)

The second one two years later in Creative Writing: “You’ll never be a good writer, you can’t organize a paragraph.”

Both stopped me from writing. They were “authority figures” they would know.

It has taken years for me to write for myself and to allow anyone to read it. Thank you for this piece. My heart was right there with you.