on not disappointing myself

“Good writing is downstream of self knowledge. I once wrote that writing 'is the act of externalising thoughts and feelings that might otherwise remain tangled and hidden within the depths of my psyche.' The only way to get this right was to engage better with what was going on inside my head."

in “on not disappointing myself” by Sindu Shivaprasad o

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I know now I was grieving something , the death of an ambition. I started attending reading events at Green Apple Books, my local bookstore, because it was something I liked in grad school, and I had to get myself out of the house. Going to those events was (is) a way of traveling without moving; they have afforded me an incredibly valuable educati... See more

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.