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Here are some things that have fueled, inspired, or comforted me:

• Alexander Chee's 100 Things About Writing a Novel - "12. You write the novel because you have to write, in the end. You do it because it is easier to do than not to do. After all, a dragon has come all this way and it knows your name."
• Danny's Essays - free weekly encouragement to get out of your own way and just make stuff
• Joyful Persistence - "What if we all kept working through everything, and it all came into our creative work, exploded it and reformed it and exploded it again?"
• Committing to the Bit - "Our knot, our single verse appears over and over again where it is most deep, where the light doesn’t reach. But it is there. The bit. The bit. The bit. Like a heartbeat. And it means everything."