Do These Lion Tamer Pants Make My Butt Look Big?

DAY 16

Word Count: 11,032

Sentence of the Day: Silence stretched, like a thread to be snapped--and once broken, might fray beyond repair.

You'd think by now I wouldn't be creeped out every morning when I flip open my laptop. I mean....why freak out when I'm living my dream, writing for hours on end several days a week, hot beverage of choice at my elbow (currently darjeeling with honey), and have a happy tummy full of pumpkin muffins?

I came across a quote by Annie Dillard that pretty much sums my irrational fear...

"A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state
overnight... it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it
every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day,
you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room.
You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing
and shouting, "Simba!"

And that, my friend, is exactly how I feel every morning when I sit down to write. Maybe if I toodle over to Amazon, I can find me a sweet deal on a bullwhip.