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Splash No. 207 - Empty Notebooks

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Whenever I’m in an uncomfortable patch of life I usually push myself towards two actions: reading more and writing more. I imagine a more bookish self, constantly scribbling notes with one hand and holding a novel to my face with the other. I can’t tell you what I hope to achieve with this self — I know that I feel calmer when writing regularly, but often in a pensive distant way. When I was starting out as a writer, I believed that every successive word I wrote made me a better writer. Now, I’m unsure what a good writer is, as my grammar skills seem to dissolve and the quality of my work varies more than ever before. After reading more and more, my taste continues to change, and my favorite work from long ago becomes my least favorite. Maybe it isn’t just about quality of work though. Maybe with a large enough repository of words the world will become less inscrutable, days will become clearer, or I’ll be able to focus on the smell of the flowers on my daily walk. As I dig around my

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