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When personal stories feel too important to risk creating badly

I want to write about my family's immigration story but I worry about exploiting our trauma for art and also about not being a good enough writer to honor it properly

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of important subject matter creates paralyzing responsibility about creative worthiness.

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