Joy is my middle name

PhD candidate, writer, researcher. Writing a novel about self injury... fiction from experience.

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‘And yet we know as practicing writers & academics that writing is an art form which takes enormous courage & guts: that it is a sweaty, smell business; that love, passions and the sacred are paramount; that the profound dancing with the ordinary is commonplace. We know writing is in the path of madness.’ Brady & Krauth, Towards Creative Writing Theory. P15-16

‘And yet we know as practicing writers & academics that writing is an art form which takes enormous courage & guts: that it is a sweaty, smell business; that love, passions and the sacred are paramount; that the profound dancing with the ordinary is commonplace. We know writing is in the path of madness.’ Brady & Krauth, Towards Creative Writing Theory. P15-16

Is this you or someone you know? Please help out one of my PhD peers & get in touch.

Is this you or someone you know? Please help out one of my PhD peers & get in touch.

I think I did.

I think I did.

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I talk a lot, so this is really sting something.

I talk a lot, so this is really sting something.

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A good reminder.

A good reminder.

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shayletslovebleedred:

You’re troubles do not define you.

Indeed!

shayletslovebleedred:

You’re troubles do not define you.

Indeed!

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Wise words from a very dear friend.

Wise words from a very dear friend.

A TED Talk That Might Turn Every Man Who Watches It Into A Feminist? It's Pretty Fantastic.

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