Why is it that we ignore so much of the advice given to us? Time and time again people told me that reading was going to make me a better writer and while I believed them, I never changed anything about myself to maximize its impact on me. I read without purpose, energy, goals... I was very …
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27 Lessons for My 27th Birthday
A millennial like myself MUST do a birthday blog post replete with GIFs. It is a requirement every year until I turn 30. We can thank Buzzfeed and Thought Catalog for this shit. The nice part of it is I can take a little break from discussing authors and writing habits and lighten up a …
Exploring Other Veins of Creativity
As I get more serious about my writing and honing the skills I have, it's important that I find and explore other creative outlets. Writing was once a hobby, something that I did to blow off steam or express myself and now it is work, although it is work that I enjoy, I'm not as …
My First Journal (And Why I Won’t Burn It)
I read an article, or conversation, in the last issue of Poets and Writers I received. It was three poets discussing the freedom of destroying old journals and why they had destroyed their own. As I read the article, I felt so sad. I was sad because they had destroyed all their keepsakes from another age, and …
Trim the Fat: John Irving
I attribute a lot of my focus and drive to having a fitness routine. I've learned that consistency is key in both keeping a writing habit and a fitness regimen. I grew up like most young writers do, with a romanticized view of being a tortured writer. Drinking, addiction, and depression riddle the biographies of …
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