Tag: creative
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What Writing Feels Like
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” This quote, famously, if perhaps erroneously attributed to Earnest Hemingway, resonates with writers, myself included, for a reason. Not to prop up the myth that we must be suffering artists, for whom writing and living a creative life is…
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What Writing Looks Like
For the longest time, I believed that writing had to look a certain way. I bought into the narrative that crafting a compelling story was contingent on specific circumstances. I used to think writing had to take place in a local coffee shop, inspired by the background soundtrack of folksy music and hipster chatter. I…
The Small Wanders 