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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
Today is my birthday and I just published what is probably my most personal essay. I believe I’ve spent the last 6 years running away from my own writing success, mostly because I had internalized pervasive ideas around writing difficulty and struggle. I was chasing different online platforms hoping for a silver bullet because I did not want to embrace what might, in fact, be my natural form: writing essays. https://paragraph.com/@driftless/writing-through-denial?referrer=0x33514A171B0eC657a0237Dd388fAA4f39eE2a2E4
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
Firstly, happy birthday mate. Secondly, this is a good piece, well done. I'm going to have to check out your other fiction work too by the way, I love the poetry I've read of yours, so I'm interested in reading your short stories as well. The visibility issue resonates with me, never easy to get work seen, harder still to make any money from it. Repeated issues for me too. But hardest of all perhaps, is giving up. A writer writes, whether they likes it or not. They just simple cannot.
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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
Thank you, friend! Yes, a writer writes. I agree. It's easier to write than to not write, but that doesn't make the writing any easier. Which is why I'm going to try and follow the easier paths, the ones that travel "downhill." As you said, it's already hard enough to get noticed. We need every break we can get! Let me know if you ever want to talk shop (fiction, poetry, etc.). Would love to chew over it with you!
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
I meant to say that there isn't a choice for a writer. A writer will always need to write because the drive to do so is too strong. Actually, I think that sometimes it's easier not to write, at least on a short term scale, long term however and it's not say clear.it may be that it's actually easier to write than not, because it's such a necessity, you don't function properly of you don't. But my point was that it doesn't matter if it's easier or harder to write or not, because as writers we just don't get the choice not to write. Or maybe that's just my experience. Always down to takk shop, my approach is very nonconformist though across all writing media!
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