Derrida's fear is that his writing is going to hurt or offend everyone. While writing everything flows out of him, he doesn't censor himself. But when laying in bed at night and thinking back over what he's written that day he second guesses it and fears he has gone too far. He doesn't want to alienate anyone, but at the same time but at the same time must remain true to himself in his writing and be edgy and interesting. But when he wakes up the next morning he realizes he cannot be afraid of what he has to say and take ownership of whatever piece he is writing. To him, the written word has a power most people don't attribute to it.
Sometimes I wonder about what I'm writing, not necessarily because I feel it is too powerful, but because when writing something for the world to read you become very vulnerable. To me it's a weird feeling to write something that people you don't know will read; or to express something in your writing about yourself or your beliefs and have someone you know read it when you never would have told them about that subject in the first place. Writing can shed light on a side of you that others would have no way of knowing about otherwise.
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