This is so good, Josh! Your piece neatly settled some free-floating ideas about (essay) writing into a coherent framework for me as a beginning writer. Nicola recommended your writing to me, and I'm not disappointed!
“Essayist” - omg, I’ve been looking for a word to describe what I’m doing and that’s it! And ah, solitude. Everything springs from there. It’s why the best ideas come on a walk or in the shower isn’t it? But it’s a scary place to go too and so easy to avoid.
"Duality is after all the scaffolding of life." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Ultimately, an essayist is a mediator between reality and the inexplicable mysteries of bare existence." I'll be thinking about this all day.
This is so good, Josh! Your piece neatly settled some free-floating ideas about (essay) writing into a coherent framework for me as a beginning writer. Nicola recommended your writing to me, and I'm not disappointed!
“Essayist” - omg, I’ve been looking for a word to describe what I’m doing and that’s it! And ah, solitude. Everything springs from there. It’s why the best ideas come on a walk or in the shower isn’t it? But it’s a scary place to go too and so easy to avoid.