How Jane Austen Made Me a Better Writer
Her novel EMMA showed me how stupid I’d been
5 min readJun 25, 2021
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Returning to high school after nearly a year as a teenage dropout runaway, I had good intentions about attending classes and completing assignments, two resolutions I’d failed at in the past. With every new school year, I’d vow to be a model student, but by October of every year since 7th grade, I was skipping classes…