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Header images via Leonardo Luz & Pixabay

No one can write with a child around. It’s no good. You just get cross.
- Doris Lessing

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Even among fans, many of the discussions about Taylor Swift's songs revolve around her personal life; Swifties comb lyrics and videos for hidden clues to uncover which real person inspired each song. Curiosity is natural, and I haven’t always been immune to it, but I am no longer interested in any of that.

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So over the years I’ve gotten a lot of advice about writing, from the masters Tweeting it out on Twitter, to my MFA professors, to my fellow authors. Here is some of the best and worst advice I’ve gotten over the years, and I how I have folded that all into my writing.

BEST: “In order to be a writer, you must do two things—you must read, and you must write.”—Stephen King

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Header images via Xi Xi & Ali Alcantara

I’ve made it no secret, over the years I’ve lived and written for the internet, that I have depression. Some of my first published articles, back in 2015 and 2016, were about life with depression, and life trying to be a writer, and the way those two identities coalesced and often crashed into each other.