I’ve always struggled with the idea of growing up, probably because I read too many fantasy adventures as a child and desperately wanted my own. When I inevitably grew older, I began reflecting on what the idea of “grown up” actually means.
Read MoreIt’s easy to romanticize quitting your job on a whim and pursuing art. The reality is steeped in challenges of opportunity, financial constraints, and stress-filled planning.
Read MoreArt takes an incredible amount of time, resources, and emotional and logistical support. To reduce it to talent and discuss success in terms of inevitability means to rob anyone not born into wealth and connections with an opportunity to even start.
Read MoreThis society is not built to support living in the present and choosing to do so is seen as rebellious act.
Read MoreI am not aspiring to write. I have been writing stories since I was 7 years old.
Read MoreOn March 2nd this year, I was rejected from the only graduate program I’d applied for: a Masters of Arts in English in the Field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.
Read MoreDo I pursue a career in writing or education or management? Should I be working alone or with human interaction? Only recently did I begin realizing those might be the wrong questions to ask.
Read MoreExactly one month ago, I left my office job for good.
Read More7. No one has it figured out.
Read MoreI’m a 21-year-old writer, English major, and soon-to-be jobless graduate living in my parents’ basement.
Read MoreThe closer I’ve gotten to graduation, the less certain I’ve been of what I wanted to do with my life.
Read MoreAt this stage in life, it can be so easy to narrowly focus on the path we’ve laid out for ourselves and refrain from getting distracted, when those distractions might be the things that make us happiest.
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