Some Free Writing about Free Writing

 ...your censor starts “improving,” even before you’ve written.  What kind of fun or advantage is that, espcially when it’s a kind of disadvantage, especially with regard to “free” writing.  Why put quotation marks around free, because you can’t really be free, you think, but only in quotation marks?  I suppose so.  But to keep the words coming is a marvelous desideratum; it takes a free wheelingness, and free willingness, and it takes at least a modicum of courage.  Maybe more than that.  It was the secret to doing my essays, and it was the secret to doing my Ph.D. dissertation finally, I had to say each day I sat down, “I don’t care if it comes out shit.”