The Difference Between A Writer And Someone Who Wants Everyone To Think They're Some Romanticized Notion Of "Writer"

A “writer” is a novelist, a freelancer, a copywriter, a technical writer, a poet, a journalist, a blogger. A writer wrote the small print on the back of your Colgate and got paid an annual salary of $75,000 a year doing just that, and he’s been doing it for 20 years…

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The Different Types Of Cab Drivers There Are

The Cab Driver Who Wants to Chat. You always get into this guy’s cab when you’re on the verge of tears, or homicidal, or just plain tired. He peers back at you in his rearview mirror and decides that, while there’s an 80% chance that you want to go to sleep and never wake up again, he’d like to know what you’ve been up to these past 20+ years.

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

Would You Rather Be The Cookie Cutter Girl Or The Alpha Female?

After a few years at work, you find yourself having to deal with the increasing dissatisfaction of how things are, and with your own incompetency. You quit your job, convinced that you need further education. You take on another degreebe it the Masters, the MBA or the PhD. You have a need to constantly improve yourself, and to be the best at what you do. Your pursuit of perfection and excellence drives you insane at times.

Jasmine Zheng is a graduate student in Economics, currently living in the capital city of Australia. Her last ...

Social Media From A Neurotic Perspective

Social media is terrible for the following people: neurotics, Virgos, paranoids, the self-loathing.

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

The Difference Between A Writer And Someone Who Writes

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. A writer understands the capacity for words to embolden, to eviscerate, to cut a man in half.

Eliot Rose likes the sound of the voice in her own head. She thinks all New Yorkers are beautiful. Someday ...
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