the more you write, the more there is to find - by maja

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writing is a net for catching thought

When I started writing personal essays in May last year, I expected it to be a fun, low-stakes creative experiment. I had always been drawn to writing, first through stories and later through essays in university, so I expected it to feel familiar. What I did not anticipate was how profoundly it would change the way I think, process experience, and make sense of my life. That sounds somewhat dramatic, but many people speak about how beginning a writing practice changed their life in similarly grand terms. I wanted to understand more precisely what that change actually consists of, and what…

the more you write, the more there is to find - by maja

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