"And I thought love was a toilet roll."

Read it all here: open.substack.com/pub/dawniers...

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Someone said I could write about toilet paper and it would be poetry.

So I did, and now I am changed forever.

I love when people push me to explore places I would have never been to.

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Lorrie Moore, “How to become a writer” from the book Self-Help.

Who were you before and failed at?

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Finishing my drafts one after the other, from the easiest to the most complex like if it was a debt repayment plan.

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I wrote a little something about living around a dead tree on a beach, and maybe becoming a bird. But really it's about frameless dwelling and returning to the world.

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Question for the #writingcommunity #writers

Do you write
1) from yourself
Or
2) for the reader
3) wtf is this question, it's 1 & 2 infinitely kneaded together until it rises on its own.
?

Here's the bridges I put out:

(extract) Searching for the land—looking for shores in a sea of strangers.

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I am an ocean and yet I come to you as a lake. At least until I know you can handle my vastness and my waves.

We always enter an ocean by its shores; from where we can stand on our feet.

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