Don't be a tourist

To go all in, you must let go, and to let go, you must go all in

I get frustrated whenever I lose focus while I’m writing, especially when I’m on a roll.

Because the momentum that was carrying me down to the deeper layers—which contain, like diamonds, the truths I’m working to excavate and dust off—desists, and I lose sight of whatever it was I was attempting to illuminate.

As a result, my writing remains on the surfac…