Creative Writing Heals

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Readers, consider this post an addendum to the post I wrote last year: Why You Should Write as the World Burns, in which I outlined a multitude of reasons why the act of writing is so crucial right now, and always.

In this post, however, I want to focus on the importance of creative writing specifically, and how writing creatively has the power to heal. …