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I realized that CC gave me the ability to work.
The thing I learned was that I can do it. Whatever it was, I could do it.
I went to Harvard and I happened into a class that was called Theology in the Literary Arts.
And I was like, "Yeah, you know,
I really want to write for a long time. Maybe I can write a creative piece for my final."
which is now the novel that I've finished and fleshed out entirely.
This summer I wrote fifty thousand words in three and a half weeks.
So I had a block
and I wrote the rest of my book in a block.
It worked. It was like I was right back in that work ethic.
Three and a half weeks, push, push, push, four days off.
I think the fact that I had to study
academic writing, I had to write essays about
philosophy and religion, I had to write essays about modern Christianity.
I think because I had to learn language at a technical level and an argument level,
it made me understand how it can work in a creative field.
I learned how to think in the real world, and be able to be
a professional, to be an academic in divinity school again.
And then how to be like a pretty happy person.
And it's so much fun. I love CC. It's the best.