You Will Be A Better Writer If You Live First

Michele Merritt
7 min readAug 17, 2020

Finding your voice through the profundity (and mundanity) of experience

Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash

Ever since those first days of writing in school, I was told “you are a good writer.” I scored high on any writing assessment throughout my educational experience, and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy, which of course involves a boatload of writing. It’s pretty difficult to get away with a dissertation…

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Michele Merritt

Philosophy professor. Adoptee. Advocate. Activist. Marathon swimmer. Cheese consumer. I write about dogs a lot. michelemerritt.com