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“Creativity is artistic mischief… We're working, but we're delighting in the work. When children play, it's not a means to an end. Playing is the point and its own reward.”
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
“When you're restless, you're alive and awake, not sleepwalking in your life or in your creative practice. You value independent thinking of compliance, experimentation, and risk over the sure thing. Restless riders are flexible and nimble; they resist doing the same thing again, and again, even if that thing was successful and well received. They refused to rest on their laurels.”
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
“Any piece of writing is a time capsule. It reflects the choices—and the abilities, and the limitations—of the writer we are at the time.”
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
“Commit to doing at least one thing in service of your writing every day.”
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
― Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
“All along, I thought I was protecting the kids. Shielding them from realities behind closed doors. Sacrificing to maintain a two-parent Christian home. Making hard, better choices for their faith, family, and education than I made for myself, trying to safeguard them from pain.
But they saw. That was obvious now. And staying meant raising sons who hit women. Staying meant raising a daughter who stayed with the man who hit her. And that would be my fault. I'd be the one who taught them life like this was okay. I didn't just let erratic violence continue happening---I helped by refusing to leave. Good mothers don't let this happen to their kids.”
― A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
But they saw. That was obvious now. And staying meant raising sons who hit women. Staying meant raising a daughter who stayed with the man who hit her. And that would be my fault. I'd be the one who taught them life like this was okay. I didn't just let erratic violence continue happening---I helped by refusing to leave. Good mothers don't let this happen to their kids.”
― A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
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