Jul 19, 2021
On Writing (with a Day Job)
There are many kinds of writing lives, and yours includes a day job.
There are many kinds of writing lives, and yours includes a day job.
I decided I was going to write something just for me, something I loved, to keep me company during the hard, lonely months of 2020.
A part of me fears that my writing community will take me less seriously if they find out my highest academic honor is a high school diploma.
This was the pact I made with my now and future self: to become the most successful writer that it was possible to be.
I could see that my editor's notes were going to make the book better, but I had to get over myself and implement them first.
When you’re sick, it’s tempting to yearn for how you once wrote. But thanks to Jess Thom, a British actor who performs in Beckett’s short play ‘Not I,’ I have begun allowing who I am today into my writing.
As a journalist, I’ve learned that isolation is damning—something I don’t think the writer in me fully recognizes.
There is an award in my office that does not belong to me.
I am yet another poet writing a novel. Which is to say, I find myself in hell.
Since the onset of the pandemic, isolation has been, for good or bad, a major feature of life. Here you’ll find reflections from several writers of color, shared by POC United.
The best thing that writing can do is to replace a shallow illusion with something more nuanced and closer to the truth.
My writing gives the validation my younger self will need to believe in me, for me, during the years between now and when I won’t know how.
