Desperation – Might As Well Write

Advice, Desperation, Hope, Mental Health

Should I Bother to Keep Writing While Society Unravels?

Quoth Hunkered: With people getting sent to foreign prisons and the economy in freefall and martial law coming down in the next few weeks, should I bother to keep writing or just hunker down for the inevitable fall? Oof, I…

Will Ludwigsen
April 17, 2025

Desperation

Are Lost Words Gone Forever?

During a recent trip to the endlessly burning coal mines of Centralia, Pennsylvania, my laptop slid from my grasp and plunged quite possibly to the center of the Earth. On the hard drive was a novelette I’ve been working on for years. I still have some fragments, but looking at them fills me with sadness because I don’t think I’ll ever recapture the feeling I had when writing the story in the first place. What can I do?

Will Ludwigsen
February 4, 2023