I Took an Involuntary Break from Writing and Honestly it Just got Weird

Sophia An
6 min readAug 15, 2019
By Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash

At the start of the summer I decided I was going to do something I’d been trying to do my whole life: writing. I’d written before; I’m an English literature graduate so churning out words isn’t new to me. The difference between my university career and my post-school writing career is I wasn’t being given direction — here, I was writing without purpose. Or there was a…

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Sophia An

Writer, artist, book lover. Shakespeare said “look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.” Someone help me be the flower.