your style vs. your story

memoirs as an outfit prompt

At any given time I have about 3-4 post ideas saved as drafts, and no fewer than 20 notes in my phone with random in-the-moment ideas or realizations about style. The past couple of weeks I’ve started and stopped writing a lot. I would get somewhere with an idea, and then just…stop. Or I would feel ready to hit publish on a post and in giving it a final proofread, decide that it completely missed the mark.

What I’ve been doing plenty of, though, is reading. I’ve been devouring memoir after memoir for the past two months. I’ve stayed in to read when I could have been seeing friends, and I’ve read instead of writing more than once. Always one to search for meaning in everything, I wondered how my recent fascination with memoirs could possibly be related to furthering or bettering my career as a stylist.

My readers and a Uniqlo turtleneck to feel smart and stylish.