ERIN L. MILLER

Growing up near Cleveland, Ohio gives me a predisposition for things of a darker matter. Home to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a river that once caught fire in the 60s, and six-month winters, Northeast Ohio breeds into its people a certain kind of grit and tenacity. It’s no wonder then that I gravitated toward the likes of punk, metal, garage rock, and similar genres. It’s a musical camp I fall back on often when I write (both poetry and copywriting). So much so did the habit

People with English degrees are often labeled as pretentious know-it-alls, verbose bookworms prone to whimsy and daydream, introverts able only to communicate through the written word. And maybe that’s because most of these markers hold some truth. While it’s been seven years since I got my English degree, it still feels like I hold a lot of residuals from a very impressionable time in my life. It was during these years I was reading Baldwin and Nabokov and Faulkner—all write

Writers can be indecisive. Picky. Perfectionistic. These are my favorite online (+ offline) writing tools that work best for creating polish

A writer voicing an argument for writers might seem a bit—gauche? As a writer, though, it’s something I think about a lot. In an age that seems to increasingly devalue writing as content forms like photo and video take front stage, the ol’ dependable written word seems to have been all but forgotten. Different forms of content go through different periods of popularity. What we tend to forget during these times is that each one is integral. Words are no exception. 1. Writers

Welcome to my blog! For this first post, I want to talk about what I mean when I say "leaning into your own timeline." Over the course of the last few years, I've developed a sense of complacency that I've only recently understood how to navigate. There's a bit of shame in admitting this but it's one of those sharp truths a person has to live up to. After graduating in 2013, I kept looking for that same dreamer mentality toward personal development I'd gained from having a co