I’ve continued to reflect on my extract a couple of days ago from a haunting call to action for writers. Here are more words from that Eric Maisel newsletter piece (“A writer’s pledge”):
We writers—all of us, really—are capable of speaking. Mustn’t we? I do not think it is indulgent of us to write other things. But I do think it is massively indulgent of us to not sometimes write engaged things that scare us to write and that we fear may come with consequences. We must make some beautiful things in the service of liberty and in defense of our children. We do not have to do this day and night but certainly by some occasional dawn’s early light. We are called to this, aren’t we?