There is a danger in writing. The danger in writing is that you place an interpretation upon the information or pieces of reality that you write about. Interpretation in itself is not the actual danger...more, that you might start to believe that interpretation.

When I write, my mind seems to take on a mind of its own...I have to be so careful to write only what I really mean - not just something that sounds good, or that my mind manufactured on autopilot.

I have to gain a lot of distance from my old writing before I can take something good from it. The funny thing is that by that time, I feel somewhat disconnected from it - it's hard for me to believe I actually wrote it. And when it gets to that point, my writing starts to re-teach me...what I wrote instructs me. So strange - the relationship between a writer and their writing.