Trying with Emma Barnett

Trying with Emma Barnett

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Trying…to make the invisible, visible

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Emma Barnett
Nov 19, 2024
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I am writing this through pain. Not that you would know. I am sat in a bar - snatching some time to talk to you. And yet, no piece needs writing. As a writer you can talk yourself out of it. Every. Single. Time. 

Just like I imagine you can talk yourself out of any painting should your instrument be a paintbrush.

That is until you write it or draw it and …

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