Manifesting Nachos and a (Writing) Life of Weirdness
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Writing is weird. It’s other things, too, but it’s weird. Writers are weird. We’re other things, too, but weird covers a lot of it. Our search history covers the rest of it. We’re in our heads but also very much in the world. We take all of it in, and some of it sticks and some slides onto the paper. We’re social and we’re introverted. We’re curious and stubborn. We gaze at stars and at our own navels. Our characters are everyone and they are only us. We’re bold and terrified. We’re fun and we’re tedious. We talk to ourselves and we try to speak to the world.
Manifesting Nachos and a (Writing) Life of Weirdness
Manifesting Nachos and a (Writing) Life of…
Manifesting Nachos and a (Writing) Life of Weirdness
Writing is weird. It’s other things, too, but it’s weird. Writers are weird. We’re other things, too, but weird covers a lot of it. Our search history covers the rest of it. We’re in our heads but also very much in the world. We take all of it in, and some of it sticks and some slides onto the paper. We’re social and we’re introverted. We’re curious and stubborn. We gaze at stars and at our own navels. Our characters are everyone and they are only us. We’re bold and terrified. We’re fun and we’re tedious. We talk to ourselves and we try to speak to the world.