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Saratonin · May 29, 2026

Freewrite O'Clock: High Anxiety

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Sara Benincasa · Saratonin

Storm over Lake Michigan, 2025 or 2025, photo by me

Sometimes I set a timer for ten minutes and write until the timer goes off, about everything and anything and nothing at all. I welcome you to join me if you need to knock some cobwebs from the corners of your brain or if you just feel like doing something creative for ten minutes.

Here we go…

I’m doing an interview for a podcast in a moment. Even though I know one of the hosts and get to talk about one of my favorite subjects (Sierra Online games from the ‘80s and early ‘90s), I’m still a little anxious. Not about the prospect of the interview, exactly, but about other things that floated through the day like motes of dust, traces of potential panic seeming to hover around me.

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