Thank you to Raluca Albu for prompting me to write and to BOMB for publishing the following piece:
To me, writing is always like walking up a flight of stairs with giant gaps in between. I lose my breath, my limbs start to shake, I worry I am going to fall and awaken in a chalk outline of my mistakes.
For full article and many other wonderful writers’ responses including Lidia Yuknavitch go to: BOMB
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/looking-back-the-past-decade-in-literature/
Aimee Herman 