Falling out of love with dreams

J Dawson
6 min readApr 7, 2022
Photo by Milivoj Kuhar on Unsplash

I don’t love to write the way I used to. My lofty dreams of sitting in a crowded bookstore filled with people there to see me are nothing but memories. I’m starting to think that’s a good thing — a needed motivation with stakes in order to progress my story.

At some point I became a plot issue in my own life. Back when I hosted “Too Many Words” one of my favorite writers Delilah Dawson had come on the show…

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J Dawson

Writes literary fiction with a speculative bent. A parent of teens. Accidental house flipper. Friend of cats and dogs. Kindness matters. ND Bi (she/they)