“I didn’t have a lot of connections when I started writing, but I’d spent a lot of time making sure I had something to say and could say it well.”
Meet Amanda Woytus, a Catapult Writing Program alumna & a podcast host for women whose futures are yet to be written.
Absorb everything. Write most of it down. If it’s still magic after you finish, cut until all that is left are the words you want.
“Non-existence is a reasonably pleasant state, and if you’re going to use language to conjure people out of that reasonably pleasant non-existence and on to the terrifying page, you owe them your soul.”