A Love Letter to Public Transit
| personal-favourites, community | 1,962 words
TAGS: personal essay, community, Social Commentary, Urban Planning
Did you know it's actually better than driving?
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Community Will Save Your Life
| politics, community | 3,741 words
TAGS: personal essay, community, Mental Health, Social Commentary
But You Must Allow Yourself to Be Annoyed and Practice the Radical Work of Staying
My Best Advice for Medium Writers with No Followers
| writing-craft | 2,305 words
TAGS: personal essay, Writing Process, Medium, publishing
My Experience with Medium's Writers Circle
THE INERTIA EFFECT: Stop Optimizing
| writing-craft | 2,549 words
TAGS: personal essay, productivity
Writers that write badly instead of plan extremely well are... better writers?
Your Civic Duty to Make Art
| personal-favourites, community | 2,221 words
TAGS: personal essay, community, Creative Process, Social Commentary, politics
On the downfall of NaNoWriMo, democracy as creative practice, the bread we bake, and waking up.
Gen-Z love dumb phones, the analog, e-ink screens, slow living, community, and longform work.
| culture | 2,038 words
TAGS: personal essay, Cultural Criticism, Digital Culture, Analog Living, Digital Minimalism
This will give you the most amount of hope you've had in a long while.
How to Rewild Your Writing Practice
| writing-craft | 4,720 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Process, Writing Process, Academic Writing
Escape the Sterile Classroom Killing Your Voice. Return to Nature.
Lovebombing, Psychosis, and Murder.
| ai | 3,901 words
TAGS: personal essay, Mental Health, AI
I was wrong about artificial intelligence. It's actually so, so much worse.
BoJack and the Temptation of Suicide
| culture | 3,058 words
TAGS: personal essay, Media Criticism, Mental Health, suicide
I watched BoJack Horseman from when it premiered in 2014 when I was seventeen up to when it ended. I have grown up with BoJack.
...How the Hell do I Find Good Creators?
| 1,482 words
TAGS: personal essay, Digital Culture, Curation, Social Media
If you're a writer that's active and consistent, I'm looking for you. Yes, you.
In Defence of Rupi Kaur
| writing-craft, culture | 2,607 words
TAGS: Cultural Criticism, Media Criticism, Literature, poetry
The Necessary, Complicated Legacy of Canada's Best-selling Poet
THE COMPASSION ECONOMY
| politics | 2,778 words
TAGS: community, politics, Social Commentary, Social Justice, Economics
When a Generation Stops Pretending to Dream of Labour
When We Get Blackheart
| personal-favourites, lyric-essays | 1,741 words
TAGS: personal essay, creativity, Media Criticism, Literature
An Essay on Potatoes, Figs, Men, and the Truth.
The Piss Average Problem
| ai | 2,853 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Writing, Cultural Criticism, Media Criticism, AI
The Age of AI is a Crisis of Faith
Witnessing Palestine & the United States
| politics | 3,443 words
TAGS: Media Criticism, politics, Social Justice, palestine
Notes on Apocalypse and What We Owe the Living.
The Current State of the Internet should TERRIFY You
| 2,454 words
TAGS: Digital Culture, Social Commentary, Media Criticism, technical
and How I'm Trying to Save It
Ceremony
| writing-craft | 2,806 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Writing, Indigenous Writing, spirituality
What I Learned Getting My First Story Boosted After 10 Years on Medium
Mise en Place for Writers
| personal-favourites, writing-craft | 2,303 words
TAGS: personal essay, creativity, writing, productivity
What Four Years in a Children's Hospice Kitchen Taught Me About Craft
THE BANANA MYSTERY
| writing-craft, lyric-essays | 773 words
TAGS: personal essay, Literature, Creative Writing
A Literary Question Across Centuries in the East
Be prolific. Accept every thought. Mythologize yourself. Show up.
| writing-craft, culture | 2,788 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Process, Writing Process, productivity, music
How to write like the Mountain Goats to create your own body of work you'll be proud of.