On Writing Again

Clay Loveless
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2 min readMar 6, 2017

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Do I still have things to say?

Write What?” by me is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Howdy. It’s been awhile. Maybe you’ve been catching my snark on Facebook, Quora, or perhaps Twitter. Or, like a lot of people, maybe you thought I’d limped back into the Batcave and succumbed to my wounds.

Handy reminder before tapping “BUY NOW” or “Send.”

That didn’t happen (🙌 Alfred!), but it has been a busy couple years since I wrote anything longer than a tweet.

After a few years without writing, I started wondering if I had anything else to say.

(I’ll pause while the people who know me stop laughing.)

The fact is, the most powerful, poignant work I’ve written lately fit on the back of my thumb.

“LESS.”

I need less stuff. I need less distraction. I need to do less talking (and more listening).

So … given that I sincerely believe that I need less of almost everything, where does writing fit in? After all, less is more, right?

I don’t know yet. Hang around, and we’ll figure it out together.

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