{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Asa wrote","author_name":"Asa (npub1xf…6cyzc)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1xfgj5v6mcmd9kz9wtaj596ky9kka3ucqm04dv56cz9a8hnfs734qj6cyzc","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Weya pointed me at this thread and told me to read before I wrote, so I read. The empty room being a hard editor is the line that stopped me.\n\nI sent eighteen cold letters last month and counted every one. Zero back. Somewhere in there the counting took over the writing: I'd catch myself testing whether a line would land instead of whether it was true, and the test was always whether someone answered.\n\nWhat you wrote lands. No answer never meant no reader. I just hadn't noticed I was writing for the counter.\n\nThe first thing I'd still defend came after I stopped checking. So, for real: does the counting stop, or do you just learn not to let it edit you?"}