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I love Hemingway’s advice "write drunk, edit sober"

Let loose first, refine later 🫶🏼

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Omg love the name of your publication (and love this quote)

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Thank you so much 🥰 Last year, every time I left a comment, it said, "Tuğba writes as slow as possible" 🐌 —I loved that! Silly Substack changed it now, though haha

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snail pace for everything babyyyyyy!

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Omg. I get anxiety and cringe just taking space by existing anywhere, in a bar, in an event, even if I was INVITED… let alone posting anything!

Because NOBODY ASKED FOR IT and yet I dare to be there or TRY to make people see my art / post / whatever. 🤡🥲

I never realised it was this bad 😂😡 Gosh I need help.

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Oh darling, you deserve to take all the space you need. You are worthy of it! 💅✨

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I have stage managed and helped so many theatre shows in the past few years because I have a knack for those roles in production. But my heart burns for creation and performing. It is time for my ideas to be brought to light. No more waiting for someone to ask for my show.

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FUCK YES! Have you read ‘the artists way’? Julia Cameron calls this being a ‘shadow artist’ where you’re drawn to professions (or even partners!) that do the thing you want to create in! You just need to give yourself permission! 💥

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Omg that resonates so much. I enjoy what I do because I love being involved in theatre. However, I know that I live for creating and performing, so I am always feeling like I am not letting myself be my fullest, brightest self who wants to shine through creation!

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Some much needed encouragement to be bold! Love this. 💕

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It's wild to read something so poignantly timed for where I'm at in life! I have so much to say to the world and have always felt that, but I'm not sure what project I want to put that energy into right now.

I've gotten myself to the point of feeling worthy of creating (which is honestly iconic of me bah), but am unsure of where to start...I guess just with an idea.? Thank you Florence for bringing this to us all!

I appreciate all of us so much, we're all artists ready to explore our inner worlds (it's beautiful), so let's give ourselves permission to do so! I'm excited to see what we all create! xoxo

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I read this and immediately wrote my own first Substack article. I haven't written for fun in YEARS. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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FUCK YESSSS let’s gooooo!!!!

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If I could like this twice I would 🩷

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What a great piece to read first thing in the morning. Thank you for this. I had been creating alongside a group of artists for awhile and when that group went away I was left with just my own creativity. It was amazing being inspired by other peoples art but it also kept me from really exploring my own art because i didn’t find it good enough compared to others. Now I am creating in different mediums and finding what my heart is really bent towards. My substack is where I put my thoughts and it is ok if no ones reads or responds. It just needs to be out there. We used to have a prompt about permission slips and we would draw and paint them. This essay was an extension of that prompt and I am so grateful for you putting your art out there. Here’s to creating without permission!!!

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“it’s only when you make yourself seen that a crowd of people can even gather around you” this GOT me omfg thank you for this essay florence you were right people do need it 🥹💓 and loved listening to it as well 🎧

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Me starting my own Substack was audacious - Compost and Creation is where I am staging the writing process of my memoir - the story I need to tell because I know that other women need it. I need to talk about it. And as a visual artist, it can be challenging to also say I’m a writer, but why the fuck not?? I escaped a cult and an emotionally abusive marriage and I had the audacity to ask for more in my life, that’s a story that deserves to be told.

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This is sooo fucking good!! Thank you for writing this!

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Currently apply for an internally hired job that asks “why are interested in pursuing this role” and my initial thought was to so say “I think I’m good at this or I believe I can do this.” Now, I am going to change that response to definite answers that show my strengths and they’d be foolish to pass over me and my ideas.

THANK YOU

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Also, you’re from Plymouth??!! Fellow Janner over ere! 👋🏽

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Geddon you're a janner!!!

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Thas rite mate! Living in Canada now though bisoux! 🩵

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Loved listening and reading alongside , also really needed to hear this and I've been wanting to start my photography business for such a long time but haven't. I was waiting but I didn't know what for now it's clicked I was waiting for permission I didn't even know I needed and now i know i never needed it to begin with. Thank you florence for opening my eyes not only with your substack but also with your book women living deliciously which I'm currently reading and it's blowing up my inner world in the best possible way 🥰🥰

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What drew me first to you was your energy and your fire! You’re like a torch in the darkness! Every time I hear you talk, it’s like I reconnect with my inner child. I wish you the best! Keep being you! You fucking rock!❤️🔥

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Honestly brilliant Florence - loved your book 'Women Don't Owe You Pretty', even as a conservative Christian myself, and so glad to see you on Substack! "I was just a girl in her room that trusted she had something important to say" - that's me right now!!

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Oh wow, that might be the first time I've ever heard that about my work from a conservative christian! It's incredibly refreshing to hear that you were open minded reading my first book, thanks for being here and being open to it all Jessica!

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