![]() As long as you write it away regularly, nothing can really hurt you. ![]() All you have to do-and watch this carefully, please-is keep writing. I am, this morning, endeavoring to persuade you to join me in my deluded world it is a happy, irrational, rich world, full of fairies and ghosts and free electricity and dragons, and a world beyond all others fun to walk around in. The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, as long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. ![]() ![]() They range from the conviction that the waffle iron, unless watched, is going to strangle the toaster, to the delusion that electricity pours out of an empty socket onto your head, and nothing is going to change any one of them. Now, I don’t know about the true things or the not-true things, because there seem to be so many of them, but I do know about Mother’s delusions, and they’re solid. The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother’s delusions. ![]() Part two of the series is “ On Fans and Fan Mail.” They are drawn from “Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings,” a collection of Jackson’s work. This is the first piece in a three-part series featuring Shirley Jackson’s lectures on writing. ![]()
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