writing

I realised that writing wasn’t just about others reading my work; it was about honouring the voice inside me that needed to speak, to connect, to be seen. Now, the question isn’t why I avoided it, but why I waited so long to embrace it. My “why” is to be authentic, to release the stories within me, and to inspire others to find their own voices... See more

As for me, I have several “whys”... Why didn’t I have enough courage to publish until a few months ago? Why did I avoid the only calling I’ve ever had: writing? For years, fear held me back – fear of judgment, of not being good enough, of exposing my vulnerability to the world. Writing, my truest form of expression, felt too raw, too personal to... See more

If you write quickly, and don’t worry much about writing well, the quality of your writing will improve.”

But the process of writing — especially writing a first draft — should resemble quickly sketching what’s inside your mind, not squeezing words out of yourself.

I'm hoping you'll feel that you too could approach writing not as an intellectual operation but as capturing your personal emotional experience.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I would be very interested to check out memoirs beginning with "The hardest thing is to start. Really, where did it all begin... Maybe from the day we met? Or much earlier?" There's something captivating about the unpolished honesty of these words — the exact opposite of those overconfident journalistic hooks that... See more

I find that when I write from life and not theory, I am most able create something that feels unpolluted by all the ideas I’ve consumed, all the things I endlessly regurgitate that never provide any catharsis. I think creative autonomy is best understood as honesty without confessionalism. I don’t have to, like, name everybody I’ve ever slept with... See more

To write in a real voice, an alive voice, I have to trust my own eyes, what I see before I start to think. Of course my observations will be flawed—all individual perspectives are partial and distorted—but the only way I can gain autonomy is to write from my incomplete point of view. Put like that, autonomy comes from trust in the self, in... See more

The faulty narrative I always tell myself is that someday I'm going find enough pieces in books that I'm going to put the puzzle together into an answer for all of these questions that I have —not just about terrible, sad things, like why people have to suffer or why our lives are diminished by the arrangement of the world, but also the wondrous... See more