When Writing Feels Like Play: The Hermit Crab Essay.

Kimberly Garts Crum
4 min readMay 18, 2020
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“Sometimes, the more constraints we give ourselves, the more fun we can have . . . the rules give your intellectual mind something to concentrate on, and then your subconscious mind can come out to play. The time limit quiets the inner censor and forces you to keep writing whatever comes out.”

~Brenda Miller~

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Kimberly Garts Crum

Essayist. Editor. Teacher. Seeker. Owns Shape & Flow Writing Instruction. Co-edits a Medium publication, LandslideLit(erary), accepting prose and poetry.