on writing

Sitting down to write in 2025 is its own kind of war with forces of distraction and click-to-buy shit at every turn. Shakespeare and Jane Austen didn’t have to fight the itch to check Instagram every ten minutes while making their work. They had oil lamps and real problems like measles or... See more

honestly? writing is cardio. > Comfort is comfortable, writing is uncomfortable (mentally and physically) and to write a lot for a long stretch of time is like being the world’s least coordinated endurance athlete.