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Personal Essays

02
Jan

the last day of the before

Everyone has lived through their own pandemic, but one entirely common experience is that memory of the last time we
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02
Jan

there has to be a better way to write

I don’t know if I should admit this in a public space on the internet, but I’m not
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02
Jan

a pen and paper is always as good

I think I have found my ideal pen. It is the Pilot G-Tec C4 and its extremely fine nib and
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02
Jan

what if you did less work?

I was having a conversation the other day about what I’m working on at the moment and how I
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02
Jan

how to do nothing again

I’m in an awkward limbo phase and I don’t like it at all. My Next Big Writing Project™
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02
Jan

I am my own unreliable narrator

The evening that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down, I went for a long walk in the torrential rain. The
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16
Oct

this life is the best we've ever had

I went to a gig this week. In the horrible new sense of the word “went”, but still. I watched
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03
Apr

things I am doing and things I am not doing

I am not writing a novel. I feel like the wave of “lockdown is the perfect time to realise your
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25
Mar

very little has changed and yet so much

I keep thinking about a scene from the first series of The Handmaid’s Tale TV adaptation. It’s a
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01
Nov

am i a writer?

What is my job? This is something I’ve been asking myself a lot recently. I have work enough to
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