💡 how to live a writer's life, but with pleasure

the satisfaction of making a living from your words

exploring the windy mountaintop tea shops in Chongqing, China

I used to believe that a writer’s life was meant to have equal doses of straight suffering and careful optimism. That to choose the path of an artist was to, in a way, carve out a piece of yourself and lay it on the altar. Not a generation of something entirely new, but a bloody sacrifice cut …