What Is It Like To Be A Writer? - by Jasmine Sun

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reflections on my first year of writing full-time

I didn’t start 2025 with tremendous confidence. In January I would’ve told you that there was a 50 percent chance I’d return to product management after the year was over. It took several months before I got comfortable introducing myself as a “writer,” and several months more before I took the j-word in stride. It felt safer to act like I was in-between things, like I’d wrapped up my four years working at Substack and was now flirting with journalism as a low-commitment creative sabbatical. Of course, I harbored a not-so-secret hope that the writing thing would work out. But I wanted to be…

What Is It Like To Be A Writer? - by Jasmine Sun

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