'How Can I Become a Writer?' - by Heather Havrilesky

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It’s me again, the Italian guy. Not sure if you accept a second letter but writing to you feels good so I’ll do it anyway. Ironically, it’s now 9 am and I was supposed to start writing two hours ago but I couldn’t find a North Star. So this letter is an attempt to find it. I hope you had a great Sunday. I certainly did. Out of town there’s a garden right beside an old church I always go to when I want to stop talking and start listening, I know the caretaker and we had a small chat while the setting sun offered us a red sky. When I told him I’m planning to leave (again) he kindly replied before leaving: “Remember one thing... the best place is always inside yourself.” That phrase stuck in me since then. It made me cry how uplifting and deep a “tiny” conversation could get and how sensitive people can turn a simple phrase into the meaning of life. Because that’s what it meant for me. That’s why I cried, for the beauty of all of it: For the love I felt for myself, for him, for all the pe

Les Belles Vacances (1964), Jane Graverol Hey Heater, how are things? It’s me again, the Italian guy. Not sure if you accept a second letter but writing to you feels good so I’ll do it anyway. Ironically, it’s now 9 am and I was supposed to start writing two hours ago but I couldn’t find a North Star. So this letter is an attempt to find it. I hope you had a great Sunday. I certainly did. Out of town there’s a garden right beside an old church I always go to when I want to stop talking and start listening, I know the caretaker and we had a small chat while the setting sun offered us a…

'How Can I Become a Writer?' - by Heather Havrilesky

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