"Sometimes I know what I believe because of what I’ve written." J.K. ROWLING

"Sometimes I know what I believe because of what I’ve written." J.K. ROWLING

I love the way writing defines our indefinable spaces. And yet within that definition, it allows us to have depth, have gray space within us, and live in contradiction with ourselves. Dave Eggers talks about writing down our past as presenting snakeskins—it is a representation of what we are, now, or what we once were, that can help us understand who we are to become. In writing, in creative work, we present something static, something revelatory, and that moment creates a data point of our constantly expanding selves. The more we learn to create beyond the internal editor, beyond the endless self-critic, the more we are able to grow and own our full, true selves.