My great American roadtrip
On solitude, Kerouac, The Artist's Way, and a new writing project that is definitely NOT Twilight fanfic
The book that first convinced me I wanted to be a writer was On The Road by Jack Kerouac. This is ridiculous for reasons I’ll soon get into.
I read it when I was 15. I was on a family beach trip and deeply distressed by the mundanity of my own life. I would retreat to the top bunk of the room I shared with my sister to scrawl inconsolably in my little br…
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