Author: Sanat Sethi
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Mini Love
The New York Times runs a weekly Modern Love column. Write your own “tiny love” column about a relationship in less than 100 words. I was a volcano of destruction. I was drowning in the depths of the ocean. I was the endless, anxious rain. I was lost, and then I was found. You did…
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An Artist is Anyone Who Creates Art
An artist is someone who creates art. Art is subjective, and is pretty much what you want it to be. There is no requirement for quantity or quality. You can write 1 sentence or 1000. Your writing could be good, or complete nonsense. Who cares? If you take that first step of creating art, you…
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L is for the Love We Must Give Each Other
The most incredible book I’ve ever read is called Man’s Search for Meaning (MSFM) by Viktor Frankl. Frankl is an amazing man – I can’t do his book justice with any summary, so I recommend you read it. MSFM, as the name suggests, is about our endless search for the meaning of life. Frankl was…
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The Trials and Tribulations of Creativity
Why is it so hard to write every day? It’s remarkable how difficult showing up every single day is. Obviously, much (most?) of the world does exactly that – that’s the very nature of jobs, which help most of us survive. I mean the difficulty in showing up for the things that scare us or…
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Memories are Magic
I want to work on my writing, and I want to write in public, so I’ve decided that I’m going to publish a new piece every single day for the next 365 days. I’m cheating with today’s piece, because I actually wrote it yesterday. Let day 1 commence! Memories are a form of magic that…
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An/St/Fe
Your whole body feels tight, like you’ve crushed every inch of you. Your heart races and you feel out of breath, like someone’s sucked the air right out of your lungs. Your hands and feet feel cold, and you can’t quite figure out why. You want to run, but you cannot – this is not…
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My One Reason to Write
I feel alive when I write. There is a mix of thoughts and feelings in me as I write – I feel creative, I enjoy the creation, I feel productive, I feel happy, I feel excited, I feel mindful. All those are great, but it is the feeling of being alive, of being excited, that…
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Why I Love Reading
I love reading. I’ve loved it since I was a child. I used to read prolifically then and I read prolifically to this day. Books have always had a magical hold on me, just like I’ve often had a magical hold on them… at the library muhaha >:). It is amazing how words on the…
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April Poem 2/30: Running from the Maze
I’m not looking for an escape but an embrace. I live in many worlds, sometimes at the same time. It’s enthralling, it’s terrifying. I don’t know how to navigate this mental maze, and it overwhelms me too often. Maybe that’s the problem – trying to run away from the maze when I should be enjoying…
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April Poem 1/30: Bursting with Brightness
My mind is bursting with brightness, as is my world. I feel light on my feet, a cheetah moving effortlessly through the air of my mind. I must run, because that’s the only thing I know. I shine the light on one thing and then on another, and there’s nothing I can do to stop…