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Why do I write?
Eva Adams
  • Aug 12, 2017
  • 2 min

Why do I write?

The quick answer is that I simply have to. It’s my way of making sense of the world and it’s also my playground in that I can create my own worlds here. I love it and hate it in equal measure but to stop writing would be to stop living. It’s who I am. When it comes to individual pieces of writing the answer to why I wrote them will change depending on the piece in question. This blog, for example, started in my writing diary, an idea I got from Scott Myers in his excellent sc
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A promise to myself
Eva Adams
  • Aug 11, 2017
  • 2 min

A promise to myself

At the end of last year I made a promise to myself. I'd just lost my job and as I started filling in endless job applications, I realised I didn't want any of the jobs I was applying for. Instead, I decided that I would do whatever it took to make writing my life. I would only take on freelance work as and when I needed it to ensure writing could be my main focus. In what follows, I am sharing my experience so far in the hope that it will ring true with some of you and help
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