annika

  • TL;DR: A shit year for health, a stunningly good year for friendships with one weird high school-esque aggravation, a fantastic year for creativity, and an even better year for love. Politics sure were. This was a pretty unique year for me and creativity. One of the hardest parts of dealing with post-viral chronic health issues

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  • A tale as old as time. You need to submit writing to get it published. Having an established following can help you get published. You need to post examples of your writing or at least snippets to build a following. Most lit mags won’t accept work previously published, including on your own socials. So you

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  • The Pixies understood

    I woke up this morning with Where is My Mind stuck on a loop in, well, my mind. My mother is diagnosed bi-polar, suspected borderline, and a host of other issues. I’m fairly open about the fact that we’ve been estranged for a long time, but don’t often get into particulars. I don’t think I

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  • I’m just going to go ahead and assume this is a safe space to write about writing woes. Is it too cliche? Maybe. But you know what’s also cliche? The quote about how cliches are cliches for a reason. Anyway. I’ll spare you the same old same old about writer’s block and routines and the

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  • Desert Grace

    I wrote the below in a journal a couple years or so ago. Whenever I fill a journal, I like to reread and revisit the thoughts I had through the time it took to fill those pages. Sometimes, like now, I’ll also revisit journals years down the road. The desert has touched me since well

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