Writing Advice to My Younger Self
On My Mind | What I would say to my younger self about the writing life when I was secretly writing poems in my journal and would never have dared to tell anyone I wanted to write.
Writing Advice to My Younger Self
My Younger Self Gives Writing Advice to My Younger Self
This is a picture of me when I was around 17 or 18, the age when I first wanted to be a writer.
There aren't many pictures of me as a teenager, so I don't have a lot to choose from.
Yes, that's a hippie scarf and Pink Floyd poster on the wall. The 60s came back hard in the 80s.
Yes, I'm smoking.
Yes, I look like a stoner.
I know. Embarrassing!
I was thinking about what I would say to my younger self about the writing life and things that I wish I had known at that age when I was secretly writing poems in my journal and would never have dared to tell anyone I wanted to be a writer.
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