Write Without Restraint! An Incredible Offer

That’s right: for an unlimited time so long as the English language exists, YOU can indulge in every verbose fantasy imaginable! Flaunt your vocabulary! Use adverbs unendingly! Overwrite EVERY SINGLE paragraph!

Matt Bevilacqua grew up on Long Island and lives in Washington, D.C. He likes Martin Scorsese movies and ...

My 5 Favorite Pill Heads (On TV)

Poor Kim Richards — she never can seem to catch a break, can she? Unlucky in love and in and out of rehab, she’s a sad tragic figure who spends her daze clutching old photographs from her child star days and throwing martini glasses at the gardner.

I write and edit Thought Catalog. I'm a brat. Send me fun things at ryan@thoughtcatalog.com
 

An Open Letter To The People Who Hit ‘Reply All’

Oh, John and Holly. Holly and John. I know nothing about you. I don’t even know if you know each other, or if you are as much of strangers tethered by circumstance as I am to each of you. Perhaps the only point of intersection in our lives is Amanda, our sole mutual friend — the same girl whose words sealed our fates together in the first place.

Natalie lives in Washington, DC and spends most of her time thinking about vintage dresses, canonical ...

What You Say In Job Interviews Vs. What You Think In Job Interviews

“This is so embarrassing. Don’t make me do this. Are you really asking me this question? I’m not even close to qualified for this job and we both know it, so I’ll go ahead and make something up about how my previous experience has somehow prepared me for this position. This is embarrassing. There — you’ve humiliated me. Are you happy?”

Sari Moon is a graduate of NYU's journalism program. She has a part-time job as a librarian. Contact her at ...

A Fear Of Success, A Fear Of Failure

When I was twelve, my parents received a letter in the mail. It was from some boarding school looking for exceptional minority students to give scholarships to. I’d done pretty well on my citywide standardized tests, and we always circled both ‘Black’ and ‘Caucasian’ on any form that asked, so on paper I was very much what they were looking for.

Steph is a former editor at Thought Catalog and a current writer at Gawker Media. Her work has been featured on ...
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