August 20 - Write about the weight of sleep (after W.S. Merwin)
Swimming upstream under wet concrete. It drags you down, away from the sunlight of day.
Day 20 - Naked in the Hallway
Gwahhh? The author has a friend (middle aged) who has a naked photo of herself, and one of her husband, hanging in their hallway. O_o The point the author is attempting to make is that "writing is indiscretion".
I think a better way to use the analogy is that you bare all when you write. You can hide bit with lighting, leaving parts in shadow, but you are still exposed.
Your comment about writing 'making one naked' is interesting - I seem to recall reading a quote from another author (from ages ago, lit classes??) that said something similar.
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