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if i'm honest with myself - by visakan veerasamy

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I don’t want to write about writing in all of my posts, but I must also concede that there might be some amount of it that I need to get out of my system before I get to the point where I’m not thinking about it anymore. I’d take “write beautifully without writing about writing” over “tediously writing about writing”, but I would take “tediously writing about writing” over “not writing at all”. Anyway maybe I can just collapse this into a footnote once I’m done with it. I seem to have forgotten that lately, and by lately I mean “in the past couple of years”. I may have unwittingly developed a fixation on a fantasy model of writing rather than facing the actual reality of how my best writing happens. And really, right now where I am, I don’t even care that much about doing my best writing. I just want to do writing that feels honest. Over the years, I’ve come to find that honesty isn’t nearly as straightforward as it might seem. I still love Black Widow’s quote from Captain America: The

if i'm honest with myself i wanna be somewhere new already visakan veerasamy May 04, 2024 42 5 4 Share how to do writing that’s honest? it’s more complicated than it seems — threshold guardians (as real as Santa) – orwell and montaigne’s writing motivations — human incompleteness — pursuing the preconceptual Kirtimukha from Meenakshi Temple Gopuram, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Jayraj T. P. I don’t want to write about writing in all of my posts, but I must also concede that there might be some amount of it that I need to get out of my system before I get to the point where I’m not thinking ab

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