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A Writer’s Life: The Complicated Role Writing has Played Throughout COVID
And how we can support each other.
The highs and lows during normal times
There have been ups and downs, as per usual. There have been times I’ve written freely, allowing my thoughts and feelings to flow onto paper and keyboard.
There have also been weeks at a time when I’ve resented and rejected my identity as a writer altogether. It was almost like I wanted my writing to feel the same rejection it had wrought onto my bruised ego. I simply refused to write.
It brought me nothing but pain, right? Why should I do it anymore at all?
Because. Because I care. That was what I didn’t want to admit. The pain a writer feels when they’ve been rejected a few too many times is simply proof their love for this field is real. I swear this post is sounding more and more like a soap opera.
And it is! We writers can be so very dramatic. But that drama resonates with our readers because it is chocked full of human emotion. People want to be moved. They want to feel connected to somebody else’s words. And as writers, we want to put things eloquently enough to be felt by those readers. It’s quite a raw and intimate connection.
