Surrender Your Weapons

Surrender Your Weapons: We have abused and belittled ourselves long enough. We have been our own worst enemies, our own worst critics, the harshest arbiters on Judgment Day. We have ignored and neglected our writing altogether or shot it down in infant form, before it had a chance to take its first breath. The first rule of The Halfway House is to stop, to arrest our masochistic tendencies, and let our work be what it is. — The Halfway House for Writers Of all the lessons I’ve needed to learn as