Oh Here’s My Brain

On reentering a space of creativity after a lengthy drought.

Shannon Page
5 min readAug 23, 2021

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I am suddenly on a creative tear. I finished a novel last week — one that had been lingering at like 90-plus percent done for over a year — and am deep in massive rewrites on another novel. I wrote a blog post and an essay and then this essay, and there’s a third essay cooking in my brain. I have new novel ideas popping into my…

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Shannon Page

Writer, editor, thinker of things, living on Orcas Island, Washington state. https://www.shannonpage.net