She worked as a writer, but it seemed like she forgot how to write from the heart – until she left her writing job. DetoursFromHome
[Editor’s note: Detours from home is a Rappler column where readers can share about the new things they have learned while in quarantine. A writer shares how quitting her writing job is what helped her start truly writing again. You, too, can share your ownLike a lot of us, I was working from home since they announced the enhanced community quarantine . I knew that the transition to working from home wasn’t going to be easy, but I never expected it to be that hard.
None of this was working, so I re-evaluated my approach. I remembered something Stephen King said about writing, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” I was honestly too scared to write, so I decided to do the reading part first. It also felt too dangerous to put my work out there, because according to my old boss, “You leave parts of yourself in everything you write.” At this point, I was a huge mess, so throwing my words into the world would be tantamount to exposing what a mess I was on the inside. All this pent up fear and anxiety convinced me that I should put my writing on the back burner, at least until my last day of work.
I loved it so much that I went “AND IN THIS ESSAY I WILL-” and actually wrote the essay. To me, it was the type of song that just demanded to be written about.
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