Why Does My Writing Always Come Last?

Sadie Hoagland
3 min readApr 28, 2022

I mean, why does it feel like homework lately?

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Sometimes I feel like a fraud telling people I’m a writer, even though I have two books, a third on the way, and a legit job teaching people how to write. Because the truth is, since the pandemic, whole weeks go by without me writing a word. Honestly, it’s disturbing, but more than that I feel a detached awe: Really, I’m not writing at all? I have no

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Sadie Hoagland

Sadie Hoagland is the author of Strange Children and American Grief in Four Stages. She writes fiction and all sorts of other things. www.sadiehoagland.com