Writing
Writing stories as an escape is the most beautiful delusion because the more you practice it, the more authentic it feels. So, when I started writing as myself, for myself— truly, writing stopped being an escape and started to be a torture. Suddenly, the fictional characters I continued to create were experiencing hardships skin-close to home,... See more
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen — Breathing Space Creative
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen. https://www.breathingspacecreative.com/nourishing-word/lessons-in-procrastination-by-giselle-vriesen
my writing life is not particularly discrete from the rest of my life. In part because the more I’m with it, the more it’s just holding the questions that I have, period.
Loré Yessuff • Poet and professor Ross Gay on abandoning capitalistic achievement to seek the freedom of play – The Creative Independent
a writer is a writer, no matter what sort of work she’s doing, as long as she is thinking, still, like a writer: observing and mentally composing and watching the world with curiosity. Writing is a lovely, life-affirming thing to do, even if the world never rewards us for it, or never rewards us enough to allow us to make it the main thing in our... See more
George Saunders • Art vs. Commerce
I feel like writing is a form of evocation. To recall memory and explore the senses. You do not have to have lived a sensory to invoke it, you can understand through a lived life and similarities. I would also argue that writing is an evocation for it’s upheaval. To call upon Apollo or Dionysus or the muses. To call to any god or fragment of the
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