Category: opinion

Stories are what’s left after our experiences have come and gone

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I won’t lie, a lot of my experiences with the real world have let me down, but I could always count on creating my own world to escape it all. Doodles, paintings, crafts, choreography, until eventually learning how to pour my heart out on paper by giving life to my thoughts. I like to call this place “the nothing space”. Turning some of life’s most painful moments into something perpetually alluring helped me to survive them. Overcome them. learn from them. And while, of course, my life has certainly not been all doom and gloom, writing has helped me celebrate and appreciate the good times, too.

https://kaitlynalexisorth.com/about

I sometimes feel like I do have something interesting to say

Keywords: life

I feel like composing a novel, or a short story would be an amazing feeling, and an even better accomplishment should someone actually read it and enjoy it. Hollywood has taught me that writing is difficult, and everyone has writers block almost all the time. But if I can recapture the joy that I felt writing the story about a police officer trying to foil a terrorist (not sure why I was writing a serious piece like this when I was ~14) then perhaps the words will just flow. It’s likely that I’ll write this piece and nothing else, but at least I’ve started, at least I’ve tried. I’m perhaps not the best at communicating with others about serious topics, so my hope is that if I can write a few blog posts I might even be able to write about something serious, or even my feelings! Who knows, maybe this will be cathartic, or a new way for me to process what I’m thinking.

https://thoughtsofamadmannz.wordpress.com/2021/08/24/here-goes-nothing

In the toxic academic culture academics should use their time off to write their next A level journal article

Keywords: Living, Post-growth work , academia , covid-19 pandemic , degrowth , mental health awareness , postgrowth work , rest , stress , toxic culture , vacation , worry

Rest does not come easily after working a lot. I find this to be a culturally shared pattern and thus, to some extent, beyond one’s individual control. People are rewarded for working too much, while rarely it is asked for what and why. This is among the set of reasons why I want to make degrowth world possible (others being eg. ecological crisis). We need a society that values other things than continuous economic growth that pushes for higher levels of exploitation and capital accumulation. We need more wellbeing for humans and other-than-humans.

https://eevahoutbeckers.fi/2021/07/02/on-a-journey-from-stressful-to-restful

When I started the blog I quickly found that it was a satisfying way to connect with actual people

Keywords: blogging , criticism , dogs , fiction , memoir , rejection , writing

And I would love to see my books on library shelves, in hardcover, with beautiful reviews on the back cover; and I’d love to win awards and make a living from my writing, and be interviewed about my work.

https://rachelmankowitz.com/2021/02/06/who-do-i-want-to-write-for