I always want to improve my writing, so this feels like fate! With college application season coming to an end, I realized how much I enjoy giving my friends constructive criticism on their writing. Like, I genuinely enjoy it so much, and I feel it’s helped me become more aware of my own writing habits I need to work on^^
Feb 3, 2025
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In the throws of essay writing (boooooo tomato tomato tomato) and getting a crappy first draft out is so much easier knowing my editor (bf) will make my writing better simply by being able to see the good stuff/potential through the crap 🥳 took me a while to understand the power of a good editor but I got it! And think everyone should have one too!!
Apr 19, 2024
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been getting back into writing myself would love to have folks to bounce things off of!
Feb 2, 2025
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I joined one last year and it’s been so incredibly important to me and my work. I recommend for any writer. having a community of people who can understand the way your mind works, getting critical feedback of your work (that we rarely get as adults out of education) - invaluable.
Feb 8, 2024
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I’m always keeping my thoughts on the few films I choose to write about solely within the pages of my notes up, so I figured what the heck! Maybe someone out there might like the two cents I want to spend on talking about a film that moved me :] Spoilers, ofc!!!
(2/2/25) Absolutely beautiful film. Watched it with katlafo, and we were both sobbing messes by the end. Throughout the beginning, I spent so much time trying to analyze the film, thinking I HAD to figure out the underlying message of a film I’d heard so much about before I’d even truly experienced it for myself. Man.
The scene where Greg shows Rachel her film was so beautiful. Again, I tried to pin point what it all meant in the moment—the constant cuts to Greg and Rachel’s pained expressions, the long shots of seemingly symbolic stop-motion—but I realized that that was exactly what was keeping me from what I longed for. So I sat there, and felt. And cried, and cried.
Later, the scene where Greg chooses to go to Rachel’s room, allowing himself to simply exist in the silence, taking in the remnants of her life, it was all so beautiful; the tears just wouldn’t stop, haha.
While I didn’t leave this film with some life changing message I was subconsciously searching for, I feel this movie reminds me to love myself the way I do others; and to do things because they matter to ME, because I care about them.
While I want to say I’ll never trust anything that tells me someone or something won’t die at the end, I know that’s not true.
Feb 3, 2025
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I like working out and when I leave a workout class and I feel sore and then I take an epsom salt bath and I get in bed and my body just feels like YEAH you USED ME TODAY YAY. I love that.
Feb 4, 2025
