Re-Evaluating My Idea of Success Compelled me to Write
Why I write, how I write, and what changed for me in 2020
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7 min readJan 7, 2021
George Orwell published Why I Write in 1946 and outlined his motivations for writing, and what he hoped to achieve. Most significantly, he aimed to make “political writing into an art” which he definitely achieved with the likes of 1984 and Animal Farm.
