What Writing (and you) Have Given Me
The one practice I kept was writing. It made the cut because I can’t deny how many good things in my life have come as a result of my putting words out into the world. It also felt like a respite: one area where I wasn’t skeptical of my identity. I’m at my most courageous on the page because interrogating my feelings with words feels justified and
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That’s why I began writing this newsletter—as a form of public notetaking and writing practice. What I didn’t expect was that, in the process of flinging these posts into a void, I would actually hear from people who were reading these little summaries. This wasn’t meant to be real writing! It was just practice—practice for something else more impo
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“All those things that I've always tried to push away — having a vivid imagination or asking weird questions or whatever, I gave them a voice by writing and that's now what I do. So, all those things that I was so ashamed of or that made me feel really weird, are now what I actually like about myself. My writing has taken me places that I really en
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Writing doesn’t just change the way we understand our lives or the world. It changes us. Sometimes, it saves us.
Dear Scared to Feel Too Much: Sometimes, Writing Saves Us
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