• Am I Writing to Find Myself or to Prove I Exist?

    Am I Writing to Find Myself or to Prove I Exist?

    What does it mean to write? As a poet, a writer, a student, a woman — well, honestly, I don’t know. I simply and physically cannot answer that question. Writing to me feels like the one thing I can never quite own, constantly slipping through my fingers like the sticky slime I used to construct…

  • Why perfectionism is killing your creativity

    Why perfectionism is killing your creativity

    Creativity is not a state of achieved perfection; it’s a willingness to dialogue with chaos, to dance on the edges of the abyss of “I don’t know”. When I was 11 years old, I wrote a poem about Brazilian folklore legends for a Portuguese class. When it was time to hand out the assignments, my…