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Decisions

Thoughts about the unexpected turns short stories take on the page, PKM for writers, and the difference between being vulnerable and oversharing in fiction writing.…

I am

I am the dream I had the other night. I dreamed of an airplane that crashed on landing, setting buildings around the crash on fire. I dreamed of an ocean that swallowed a beach town. …

Love with every stranger, stranger the better

I keep falling madly in love with people for just one night. …

Journals

Reading old journals is the strangest thing. It’s hearing the voice of a ghost who used to be you, someone you left behind somewhere along the way. Every now and then I have to go through my old notebooks. While I wish I kept beautiful, aesthetic journals with…

Getting rid of perfectionism in 2021

Perfectionism is trying to protect you from failure or rejection. If you never publish your writing or your music or your art, you can't fail, can you? …