Another yes. 🥹🍂
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I have a little writing update to share. 🥹 My essay, “The Day I Stopped Calling Myself an Aspiring Writer,” has officially been accepted for publication this fall. 🍂 And this one feels especially meaningful. For so long, I called myself an aspiring writer—as if I needed one more byline, one more acceptance, one more person to give me permission before I could claim the word writer for myself. But somewhere along the way, I realized: I’m not aspiring to write. I write. I submit. I get rejected. I try again. I create. I publish. And now, I get to add another acceptance to the journey. I can’t share all the details just yet, but when the essay goes live this fall, you’ll be the first to know. For now, I just wanted to share this little YES with the people who have been following along. 🤎 Here’s to becoming—and finally giving ourselves credit for who we already are. — Sascha |
Sascha Ealey
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