When a Friend Criticizes Your Writing
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Have you ever scrambled around trying to find your glasses, only to realize twenty minutes later they were perched on your head the whole time?
“I have written 11 books but each time I think ‘Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be
Do you ever feel like your arms are being stretched in two directions, caught in a tug of war between worlds? Like you used to
Your art is not meant for everybody. Some people just aren’t going to like it. And the sooner you can accept this + embody this
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” ~ Edgar Degas My very first blog post was the best
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” ~Sylvia Plath Epiphanies. Insights.
“What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it
Every creative project has a backstory, a truth behind the curtain, a core reality that deviates from the flashy final product we see at the
Let it be easy. Let it happen slower than you wanted, let it frustrate you, let the existential realizations hit you in the produce
Rachel Stolzman (an amazing writer at rachelstolzman.wordpress.com and author of The Sign for Drowning) nominated my blog for a “Liebster Award.” I didn’t even know
By Kelsey Horton May you remember that there is no perfect word — just like there is no perfect boyfriend, no perfect eyelash, no
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Andy Warhol My blog has been frozen in
I have dozens of half-written blog posts that linger on my computer, posts on beautiful topics like post-graduation devastation, the insecurities that emerge in our
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.” – Mary Oliver I have spent
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The
Hello beloveds, I have severely neglected my posting on my blog — however, I have several half-written posts that I am looking to beef
“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time
“When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” – Kurt Vonnegut On my daily and nightly
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can’t see the tiny outstretched