Things I Have Loved This Week #2

Where I found out how fast I can read and my new and improved morning routine 💅

Hello fellow muses x

this week I’ve finished reading my first book of the year, found out how fast I can read and improved my morning routine, which was highly illuminating. More on that below.

But before we get into that – this here – is a new thing I am trying out, a weekly account of things I have loved with recommendations, personal insights and general life advice for the lovely people who hold up The Muse Letter and support my writing.

And because I had a lot of good news this week (more on that soon!):

The first one’s on me x

Things I Have Loved This Week #2

finally read Fan Fiction by Tavi Gevinson my first finished book of the year, which, okay is not technically a book but with a word length of 19K words you could call it a novella? It’s about the “fictional” but also “actual friendship” that Tavi (you may know her as the founder of rookie magazine or starring in the new Gossip Girl) had with TAYLOR SWIFT many moons ago. It’s free to read, download, print, so that’s an interesting approach.
Either way it was a fantastic read, although it does fuck with your head a bit but in a good way – as a late listener to the body of work that is the TS emporium – and apparently also now one of my top 5 artists I listened to according to my Spotify wrapped, I can say that you do not have to be a Swiftie in fact you don’t even have to know a single thing about her legacy except that she is very, very, very famous! There were so many lines I underlined. Here’s one: “In the face of such doubt, a new pattern was formed: feel like a loser, go away, write something vulnerable and thorough that proves some people wrong about something, post it, receive praise, and ambivalently return to ‘the work’ while waiting for the other shoe to drop. (In my head, the sky is full of many pairs of shoes.)”