[This from a conversation 15 years ago, initially with Hemingway.]
I’m a little hesitant here, but I think we need to call in Carl Jung. He can explain what was going on, I think.
[CGJ] But you are afraid you are making me up, and making up the data, and thus exposing yourself to the danger of being exposed as a fraud! This is no improvement from where we began.
Well, I do it regardless.
Yes. But you will do it more easily without the exaggerated respect for facts and data and verification and criticism. Such things must be risked and dealt with, or even disregarded, if one is to accomplish the clearing of any new trails.
Yes, I know. It just happens to be my particular obstacle.
If it were not this, perhaps it would be lack of access, or lack of anything to say, or inability to say it. But — continue to overcome it. Work at it. Nothing worth your while comes without obstacles, however talented or lucky you may be, or however perfectly fashioned for a particular line of work.