Why Is It So Lonely Being a Writer?
It’s no surprise that many writers feel misunderstood and alone. Writing, after all, is mostly a solitary pursuit. Whenever we visualize a writer hard at work, we tend to think of a person sitting all by themselves in an empty room, typing away. While this is sometimes true, that doesn’t mean that writers like being […]
What Does Writing Have to Do with Healing? Everything.
The past two years have been intense for all of us, on many levels. Some of us went through crushing losses and some of us found a newly discovered freedom during this crazy time. But what I’ve really noticed during the pandemic is that almost everyone has gone through some kind of healing. Healing doesn’t […]
Being Weird Is a Good Thing. It’s Time to Embrace Yourself as a Writer.
All my life I’ve been attracted to weird things. And all my life I’ve been very much aware that other people think I’m weird for being attracted to those weird things. Sometimes it’s that I can’t help but be drawn in by all the different facets of human darkness. Sometimes it’s that I get interested […]
Want to Be a Writer? Get Ready to Feel Lonely and Misunderstood.
It’s hard to talk about what it means to be a writer to other people who are not writers. Because most of the time, they really, really don’t get it. When you tell someone who is not a writer that you’re writing a book they usually ask one of these types of questions: