It was devastating. That’s really the only word. I was looking for another one. It was devastating on a number of levels, but mostly because I had to confront the fact that I had hurt this person so much that they would say that to me. That was the devastating thing. The rewriting was … once again, I’m not sure if “therapeutic” is the word, but it did feel something like a penance.
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Barbara Browning
American academic, novelist, dancer, and cultural critic
United States · b. 1961
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Writer Barbara Browning discusses making the leap from poetry and academic writing into narrative fiction, creating some version of discipline for your creative practice, and the intimacy of interacting with strangers.
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