I originally wrote Lumiana between October and December 2013, fresh out of college trying to live it up in California’s Bay Area. As luck would have it, my first boss was a veteran author, one of the coolest people to ever walk the earth, and he gifted me with the best advice to get me started: Sit …
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” (Credit: Copyblogger, Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well)
“It’s a beautiful life… well, you won’t always see it that way.“ In my line of work, it’s hard not to lose faith in humanity, but even if you didn’t choose a career in the environmental and human rights sector, you just need to turn on the TV to be inundated with everything that’s wrong with this …