Dating writers

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Like you, I am also a writer and a single mother who is currently dating. As someone who writes about her life, what has your experience been dating people who may or may not end up in your work? Do you talk to them about it? I ask because I was recently ghosted by someone who I really liked after I disclosed my last name on our first date. He clearly googled me and then wanted nothing to do with me when he saw that I had a somewhat public profile. He… ghosted, so who really knows! But I figured you might have some experience with this so I would love to hear how you navigate it! I feel like there should be a dating app specifically for essayists, memoirists, and really anyone who writes non-fiction because we are liability central.

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Ever wanted to date a writer? Are you prepared to wade through the coffee addiction, the serious depressions whenever another rejection letter comes in the mail and the possible instability, all so you can enjoy the company of a word-fluent partner who can take you to book launch parties? Well, ears up. I'm about to give you some guidance. And by guidance I may mean "warnings disguised as various kinds of advice.

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These articles also seem to characterize writers as some kind of otherworldly being that has to be handled or taken care of, a different species to be observed and entertained, but not necessarily understood. But what these lists of tips and tricks and coping mechanisms fail to acknowledge is that, a lot of the time, creatives are drawn to other creatives, people who exist with the same desire or insane urge, depending on how you look at it to fling art into the void and hope something bounces back. What happens when artists date artists? And, more specifically, when writers date writers? Passing words back and forth gave us the sense of intimacy that the three thousand and ninety miles between us attempted to thwart.

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Did I Get Ghosted Because I’m A Writer?

Taylor Swift and Beyonce have cornered the market on writing about relationships and winning awards because of men who have hurt them. It's entirely true, writers take inspiration from their life experiences and write about them in stories, articles and screenplays. For all the minuses to dating a writer, there are also a lot of pluses when you date a writer. It's not all bad dating a writer. For one thing, the creative spark within writers is completely off the wall.

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