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Because when you finish writing, you feel kind of fucking invincible

Because your voice is important

Because finding your voice is important

Because trying to find your voice is important

Because life is meaningless, so who cares if your piece sucks

Because you’re in your own head too much

Because the world is bloated with mediocre words… yours can’t be much worse

Because the only way to get better at anything is to practice

Because you need to process your feelings

Because you need to avoid your feelings

Because your email drafts folder is a graveyard

Because your teachers always thought you were so creative

Because creativity isn’t a gift or a talent… it’s a process, dummy

Because you have something to say

Because you hated what someone else said

Because you promised yourself you would

Because it’s really not that hard—just fucking do it already

Because you’re special

Because you’re not special

Because if you don’t write it, no one will even KNOW

Because you’re a fucking scholar, goddammit

Because thinking is an important pastime

Because writers are mysterious and hot

Because your one very good friend always asks what you’re working on, and you don’t want to let him down

Because you really have no excuse, especially now

Because you have nothing better to do

Because The Prompt is counting on you

Because you dream about writing

Because you have good ideas

Because you need to clear out the garbage ideas so you can get to the best ones

Because your head needs an eject button or release valve

Because you already put on the tea kettle

Because someone bought you that Moleskine notebook and you don’t want to be a poser

Because if someone else writes that idea you had, you’ll HATE yourself

Because when you don’t write, you hate yourself

Because you’re tired of hating yourself

Because that character you’ve had in your mind? She deserves to exist.

Kelaine Conochan

The editor-in-chief of this magazine, who should, in all honesty, be a gym teacher. Don’t sleep on your plucky kid sister.

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