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One other historical touch point for the word itself comes from a term coined by J.R.R. Tolkien in the 1930’s: “mythopoeia.” Tolkien’s term expresses the etymological roots directly. Mytho- pertaining to story and -poeia , the root of the word poetry, meaning “to make.” As one can see, Tolkien was in the business of myth-making. His sweeping... See more

Research by Danu Anthony Stinson and colleagues calls this the “acceptance prophecy”— the psychological phenomenon where your expectation of being accepted or rejected subtly shapes your behavior, which in turn influences whether others actually accept or reject you.

As Joan Didion said “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means”

For me, writing is like that meme going around that says “I'm doing brain laundry - organising my thoughts into lights and darks”