Crying From the Sidelines

Crying From the Sidelines

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Crying From the Sidelines
Crying From the Sidelines
August 2022 Pity Party (a few days late)

August 2022 Pity Party (a few days late)

Cry then, cry now, cry later. Whatever, I'm writing a book.

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Kaitlin Manion
Sep 05, 2022
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August 2022 Pity Party (a few days late)
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I’m writing a book. Looking back on all of my writing education, I don’t think I ever included myself in the category of “book writer” or anything like that. In middle school, I watched my classmates string out a plot in a short story so cleverly and delicately. I didn’t get that. Why not just get right to the point? I feel like I was able to get my writing style down during my senior year of high school and truly nail it down even more during my junior year in college. I just never thought it was meant for a book.

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