creativity | Drew Dotson

Mar 2
3 min

Pause for Joy [a rejected essay]

I submitted an essay to a publication on Tuesday. Today, two days later, I received the rejection email. (So quick!) Although it didn't...

Mar 1
1 min

Join the Inspiration Parade!

Today is the first day of Creativity March! You're probably thinking, "What is Creativity March?" I'll tell you. Creativity March was...

Jan 20
2 min

A semiperturbed post about a jack-in-the-box

Let me start off by saying I wrote the first draft of this post yesterday afternoon. As I worked on what I’m sure would have been a very...

Dec 30, 2022
3 min

Simple + Deliberate

I get totally jazzed about the start of a new year, and I don’t care who knows it. Does that mean I’ll actually stay up until the clock...

Oct 21, 2022
1 min

I'm published!

I was embarrassed to admit I wanted to be a writer for a very long time. I was fearful of seeming unrealistic, for one, but putting my...

Apr 26, 2021
2 min

Paint me surprised

On my birthday in 2013, Ramón and I went to a place where we drank wine and painted. For the next several years, Ramón insisted that his...

My name is Drew Dotson, and my life has been anything but perfect, yet it's still perfectly beautiful. After growing up with a genetic disease, cystic fibrosis, I was blessed to meet an amazing man who loved me without bounds. Then he died.

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