Think about “voicey” writers like Julia Reed, Anthony Bourdain, or Rick Bragg: all of these people wrote about ordinary things. But the way they talked about them was extraordinary. A good writer can talk about standing in line at the post office, and it will still be good.
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More and more, I find myself turning to reading and writing to grapple with the fact that I only get to live out one life. Chewing on the cud of my one earthly existence lets me experience life once on the way down—as I go about my day and live it all in real-time—and once again on the way back up, when I regurgitate it back onto the page.
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