“THE LITERARY NUDE”: HOW EMBRACING VULNERABLE WRITING HELPED ME HEAL”

One thing that no one tells you about writing a book is how difficult it is to actually sit down to write one. Similarly to Vaughn Wysel in the only show I ever reference, Sex and the City, I truly believed that writing in today’s age meant there was so little writing involved. Living out my real-life Carrie Bradshaw fantasy, I concluded that a page a day or a week was enough to fill a book. The reality was anything but. When I first sat down to write Love, Wine, and Other Highs, my mind was blank. Or rather, filled with excitement about having secured a book deal, and the contrasting but crippling anxiety that I might let everyone involved down. The conflicting emotions made me terrified to put pen to paper, and as a result, all I did was procrastinate when I should have been writing. I had longed for a space to write about my experiences in a humorous and vulnerable way as I had done so far, but I was scared.

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