"When I’m just an ageless woman typing, her own world at her fingertips."
This sentence made me smile cheek to cheek. I am 34, and I just started writing earlier this year. Honestly, fuck that annoying noise reminding us of all kinds of deadlines (easier said than done, obviously).
Great post. Thoughtful about the idea of aging and what that means especially for women. And yes I also hate Tom. Yuck. Bonnie Garmus, whose debut novel Lessons in Chemistry is a NYTimes best-seller and now a series on Apple TV--she's 66. You've got time :-)
Nice post Kailey. As you know life is tough. And we all work our share of crap jobs. but take it from an old timer, there is no set time for doing anything in life. The best things happen when you're ready and you want them to happen.
I got tired of living in my parents basement, so I gave up writing and got a real job. Well, 40 years later,
I'm retired and writing again. And enjoying every minute of it.
I felt this! My own work is about mapping the terrain outside of the beaten path or checklist, particularly for women, and yet I haven’t given enough thought to the notion that the biological ticking clock hanging over my head as a woman may also be contributing to my own sense that my “writing window” might inexplicably close at the same time. When in fact my actual experience is that the these things inform one another, the work of biological birthing and emotional mothering and creative art making, and often complicate one another, but they aren’t all subject to the same constraints. And thank goodness for that.
"When I’m just an ageless woman typing, her own world at her fingertips."
This sentence made me smile cheek to cheek. I am 34, and I just started writing earlier this year. Honestly, fuck that annoying noise reminding us of all kinds of deadlines (easier said than done, obviously).
Agreed! Love this. Keep writing 😊
Great post. Thoughtful about the idea of aging and what that means especially for women. And yes I also hate Tom. Yuck. Bonnie Garmus, whose debut novel Lessons in Chemistry is a NYTimes best-seller and now a series on Apple TV--she's 66. You've got time :-)
Thanks, Andrea 🩷
Nice post Kailey. As you know life is tough. And we all work our share of crap jobs. but take it from an old timer, there is no set time for doing anything in life. The best things happen when you're ready and you want them to happen.
I got tired of living in my parents basement, so I gave up writing and got a real job. Well, 40 years later,
I'm retired and writing again. And enjoying every minute of it.
Keep writing and pursuing your dreams.
I felt this! My own work is about mapping the terrain outside of the beaten path or checklist, particularly for women, and yet I haven’t given enough thought to the notion that the biological ticking clock hanging over my head as a woman may also be contributing to my own sense that my “writing window” might inexplicably close at the same time. When in fact my actual experience is that the these things inform one another, the work of biological birthing and emotional mothering and creative art making, and often complicate one another, but they aren’t all subject to the same constraints. And thank goodness for that.