Grace Curley
Stories (2/0)
What Coming of Age Films Don’t Know
Coming of age films never get it right. The teenage experience isn’t a music video, or even the fucking American dream. The shots of us speeding down highways in borrowed cars, the roof off and our hands in the air, screaming joyfully against the wind to Heroes by David Bowie, isn’t what it’s all about.
By Grace Curley4 years ago in Humans
Welcome to the Real World
It was 1 am, and I had just experienced my first professional rejection. I was in the middle of watching Best Scenes from Game of Thrones when I got the notification on my phone. I paused the video in haste and opened the email. As I read the lines of a literary agent’s secretary ‘unfortunately, she is unable to offer you representation at this time,’ I felt my stomach sink and my chest tighten. I felt dejected and disappointed; disheartened. I thought, how am I going to sleep after this?
By Grace Curley4 years ago in Motivation