The Art of Mindful Writing: How to Be Your Reader

6 min readOct 15, 2018

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Maybe you know the feeling.

Hunched-over, frantically typing, furrowed-brow?

Coffee jitters, 15 tabs open, anxiety mounting?

For many, writing is a drawn-out struggle to find the right words.

But it doesn’t have to be.

Will Franks

Written by Will Franks

freedom artist. magical realist. metamodern beat.

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