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Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

Lovely partnership and I love the focus on courage.

I love Tom's story and I always learn something new from him. I'm here for the bleeding on the page too, lol.

Great stuff, Magdalena and Tom!

Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Thank you! The “bleeding on the page” truly speaks to so many! @Tom Kuegler : it should be your signature quote!

Tom Kuegler's avatar

Thank you Veronica 🥹

Tom Kuegler's avatar

Thank you for featuring my story Magdalena! I'll be sure to send people to this in next week's email. :)

Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

It's been such a pleasure working with you! Your genuineness and authenticity truly shine through brightly!

Roy Solheim's avatar

Thank you for sharing Tom, and thank you Magdalena for a great interview. I like the description of bleeding on the page and the balance of sharing vulnerable, personal stuff and by so doing making others uncomfortable or not.

I find that I bleed on the page to when I write and have to take a lot of dark moods away from the writing I finally publish. What I take out goes into my personal journal instead.

Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

That’s a great idea: to put the very dark stuff into a journal and publish the rest!

Roy Solheim's avatar

Thank you Magdalena. The bonus of the habit that those dark paragraphs will make a very good foundation for a book a bit further down the road

Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Yeyyy! Can’t wait to read it!

Dr Mehmet Yildiz's avatar

This is a beautifully articulated story, Magdalena. It can appeal to many writers. Thank you for sharing it with us here.

Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Thank you for sharing!