An Alien on the Hunt for the Ineffable Sauce of Good Writing
What I write is all mine, it’s a living thing, it’s an extension of me that wanders out into the world. It is desire turned inwards instead of outwards, focused instead of displaced. It’s a way to access self-knowledge and self-respect.
Ava • how to avoid half-heartedness
I was quickly coming to the realization that my creative anxieties about whether there was anything original or new left to say about the world were quite generic.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
spent those years writing for someone else: an editor I hadn’t met yet, a projection of literary authority I created in my mind. I was writing pieces that I hoped sounded like publishable stories, trying to guess what readers would want, and what editors thought was important. In the process, I’d forgotten what made me want to be a writer in the fi
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