Posts by Laura Freymiller

The Art of Making It Up Following the artist's career path, which conspicuously lacks a path
I don’t have a cohesive idea. I don’t have any idea. I’m just writing every day. Daily throwing myself into the void and trusting the world to form around me.
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3 Ways To Make Your Collaborative Writing Experience a Rewarding One
It can be a long process, this discovery of a likeminded artist. It can be a difficult journey, but it is entirely worth it. You are essentially asking another human to raise a creative child with you, and it’s worth it to have a good co-parent.
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3 Types of Feedback You Should Get on Your Work
In writing am trying to communicate with other human beings, and getting the opinions of other human beings is therefore pretty crucial.
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How to Write on a Budget: For the Starving Writer in Us All
I don’t know about you, but I have become almost addicted to writing in coffee shops.
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The Cliché of the Depressed Writer: It Ends Here
We all know the stereotype, the pale young man, wrapped in a dark coat, hunched over a leather-bound notebook in the corner of a smoke-filled coffee shop, consumptive, romantic, depressive. The writer’s writer. Scribbler of poems. That to which we all aspire. Which is, of course, a load of horse manure. I will continue writing Read more ›
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The Mystery of People: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Networking
It’s usually just a matter of opening my mouth and saying those words “I’m a writer,” or more often, “I’m trying to be a writer.”
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Defeating Your Inner Critic: How I Banish Writer’s Block With Free Writing
There is something truly terrifying about starting a project, or even picking up where I last left off.
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Diary of a Working Girl: My Life in Side Jobs
In the breaks and downtime provided by this job, I was able to pen my first, and so far only, novel.
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Writing Through the Heartache
Writing can be a form of solace, but in order to be art it should bring the personal to the level of the universal.
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