It Takes What It Takes

I COULD BOTH laugh and cry over my first approach to the Fourth Step: "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." Being a writer and accustomed to an elaborate style, and having a do-it-myself complex, I decided I was supposed to write about my dramatic and unique life. I didn't ask questions or attend Step meetings. I just settled in and supplied myself with plenty of paper and the typewriter. Some 180 pages later, rough drafts strewn all around me, I surfaced to see where I had been.