Tag: writer
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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…
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How to Claim Who You Already Are
I did not always want to be a writer. I was not one of those children who carried around a journal full of stories she’d spent every spare moment composing. I have not pursued writing with a focused tenacity, blocking out all else in life. I did not go to school to study the intricacies…
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What it Means to Live a Creative Life
For the longest time, I didn’t consider myself a creative person. Though I loved to explore the world and my mind with curiosity, follow inspiration, and make new and different things, it never felt like enough. Unless I had published a book or released a song or had art displayed in a gallery or poetry…
The Small Wanders 