why is writing so hard?
- If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral ob... See more
New Guy added 4mo ago
- Vulnerability in writing is a precision tool.“ If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known,” Tim Kreider wrote in a New York Times opinion piece that has since become a wildly popular Tumblr meme.
from A Cow with a Hole in It by Jess Zimmerman
New Guy added 4mo ago
- Maybe obsessing over vulnerability is itself a way of not being vulnerable
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- According to mimetic theory, others act as models of desire for us.
from Vita Benes
New Guy added 4mo ago
writing from the heart is so hard because you can't tell whether you're being honest or performing for the audience
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