How To Create Something New

Don’t worry, there’s lots left for you to do.

Meg Mazurek
The Writing Cooperative
3 min readMay 7, 2019

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Photo by Tadas Mikuckis on Unsplash

I placed my hands on the piano and played the song I’d been practicing for weeks. My grandmother sat to my left, listening. After ten years of classical lessons, this was my first attempt at something original.

I held the last notes and waited while the sound slowly disappeared. “What do you think?” I asked her.

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