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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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Happy birthday Tom A wonderful essay. As you said, I hope the essay structure finds your general direction in the journey that you've taken fruitful and also easy. To sort of envision this sense of the essay just sort of coming forth in a different places of what we do. I do think that's a good place to be, sounds like a good sign.
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Tom Beck
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Thanks, my friend! Yes, I think it's a good sign, too. It's weird that often what serves us in life is not quite what we're looking for directly. It's a little bit off to the side, and we can miss it if we're not paying attention.
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