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what it means to write as oneself, to write so deeply into yourself that people can feel your bones just by reading your words

June 22, 2020 on writing as me what it means to write as oneself, to write so deeply into yourself that people can feel your bones just by reading your words Ever since twitter allowed us to pin tweets on our profile, I had this pinned: I'm not trying to be people's definition as a "good writer", I just want to write as me. - Winnie Lim @wynlim@kopiti.am (@wynlim) April 17, 2014 Back then when I was working at Medium, people had a phase when they all wanted to write like Hemingway. I thought he sounded constipated, and I very much preferred to write long, never-ending sentences that span fifty

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