“Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.” WayFirstsPersonsMadeFeelingsFeltBitsWaitingVoiceAnxietyPerformancesStartingMade ItInstantSatisfyingNonfictionJournalConnectingBlogsPublicationFirst PersonReadershipKeeping A JournalPerformance Anxiety Author:Kate Christensen
“When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.” WayFeelingsCoursesBrainStruggleCuttingIdentityTwentiesAppetiteAdolescenceOngoingRemarksStarvationDaydreamingSixteenHormonesRetrospectGrooveSo SadNo One Cares Author:Kate Christensen