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'I Can't Write Music and It's Killing Me!'

Get up and tell the truth.

Heather Havrilesky
Nov 29, 2021
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Blue Hill No. I (1916) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Hi Polly,

I'm going crazy because I am a creative person who needs to be creative (otherwise I'll die!) and who can't, or doesn't, create. Not even in the sense of horrific "content-mill" creation. Not even in the sense of imposter syndrome, where I'm not as good as my peers (genuinely true, but not my neurosis o…

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