Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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Jen Deaderick
Apr 24, 2021
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During a getting-to-know-you text exchange on OK Cupid, a man asked me how to handle writers block. I said to just write something.

Later, on our date, after our first drinks, he told me it was really terrible advice. Which it was. It’s not much help. It was just honest.

I still don’t really think of myself as a writer, but when I am trying to write I r…

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