Melody Wolf
@writtenedge
Melody Wolf
The answer to how to approach your twenties lies between Plath and Didion. Everything you do is irrevocable, because time is finite, which means your choices matter. So you have to choose a fig. You cannot sit “in the crotch of this fig tree starving to death.” But choosing one fig does not cause all the others to instantly fall from the tree. If y... See more
This is an interesting take. You can try them on like sweaters.
there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
me, and I want to change that. I want to refocus my mind.
Figuring out what you want is the central task of adulthood, and it’s not an easy one.
Once you leave formal schooling, you’re catapulted into a world with infinite possibilities. You no longer have to show up at school to avoid detention or ace tests to make your parents proud. You’re finally unshackled from the training wheels of life, and now you... See more
Once you leave formal schooling, you’re catapulted into a world with infinite possibilities. You no longer have to show up at school to avoid detention or ace tests to make your parents proud. You’re finally unshackled from the training wheels of life, and now you... See more
sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.
milk and cookies • why feeling lost might mean you’re finally doing it right
I’m starting to come out on the other side of this.
The Fig Tree Sylvia Plath
I saw my life branching out before me
like the tip is tree in then tie a fat
purple fig, a wonderful future
beckoned and winked. One fig was a
husband and a happy home and
children, and another fig was a famous
poet and another fig was a brilliant
professor, and another fig was Ee Gee,
the amazing editor, and another
... See moreI am a woman of many hobbies and yet not one passion, nor one mastered skill. This poem inspired me to pick up writing again, something that I feel has always been with me, but has been put on the back burner time and time again because of my insecurities. I want to overcome that, as to not let young nor future me down.
By writing fiction I have discovered some surprising things: for example that describing memories does not necessarily bring them to life. It can be the opposite: in the process of writing fiction I have overwritten some of my own memories. The act of writing has replaced them with something different, and I’ve effectively lost some of my own memor
... See moreI thought this while writing about my start as and return to being a writer.