Rebecca Jennings
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One thing that would be helpful for people to ask themselves is something that I think a lot of editors ask writers to think about. And this is maybe a little bit media inside baseball, but when you're pitching a personal essay or if you're writing about something that happened to you. You should be over it by the time you're writing it.
One thing that would be helpful for people to ask themselves is something that I think a lot of editors ask writers to think about. And this is maybe a little bit media inside baseball, but when you're pitching a personal essay or if you're writing about something that happened to you. You should be over it by the time you're writing it.
One thing that would be helpful for people to ask themselves is something that I think a lot of editors ask writers to think about. And this is maybe a little bit media inside baseball, but when you're pitching a personal essay or if you're writing about something that happened to you. You should be over it by the time you're writing it.
Exactly. You want to be able to take that pain and look at it from afar so that you can say something about it that is more than just a scream into the void. I think making generous use of close friends is really the way to go because A, Instagram stories will delete in 24 hours automatically and you don't really have to confront that again.
Exactly. You want to be able to take that pain and look at it from afar so that you can say something about it that is more than just a scream into the void. I think making generous use of close friends is really the way to go because A, Instagram stories will delete in 24 hours automatically and you don't really have to confront that again.
Exactly. You want to be able to take that pain and look at it from afar so that you can say something about it that is more than just a scream into the void. I think making generous use of close friends is really the way to go because A, Instagram stories will delete in 24 hours automatically and you don't really have to confront that again.
And unless someone screenshots it and sends it around like a weirdo, they should not be on your close friends, first of all.
And unless someone screenshots it and sends it around like a weirdo, they should not be on your close friends, first of all.
And unless someone screenshots it and sends it around like a weirdo, they should not be on your close friends, first of all.
You know, you don't really have to worry about it. And also, you know, that is a way, like Molly said, bringing your community to you, kind of letting the people that you want to know know what's going on with you without having to individually text everyone, which I think can be really hard for people.
You know, you don't really have to worry about it. And also, you know, that is a way, like Molly said, bringing your community to you, kind of letting the people that you want to know know what's going on with you without having to individually text everyone, which I think can be really hard for people.
You know, you don't really have to worry about it. And also, you know, that is a way, like Molly said, bringing your community to you, kind of letting the people that you want to know know what's going on with you without having to individually text everyone, which I think can be really hard for people.
Like doing the rounds where it's like, hey, we broke up, like don't really want to talk about it. Doing that could be a way of kind of pushing the hard work of talking about it individually with every single person you know down the road when you're in a better place.
Like doing the rounds where it's like, hey, we broke up, like don't really want to talk about it. Doing that could be a way of kind of pushing the hard work of talking about it individually with every single person you know down the road when you're in a better place.
Like doing the rounds where it's like, hey, we broke up, like don't really want to talk about it. Doing that could be a way of kind of pushing the hard work of talking about it individually with every single person you know down the road when you're in a better place.
That's amazing.
That's amazing.