And the more care I put into my work, the better I got. Unlike many of my friends, I never felt impostor syndrome, because I was sure I was meant to be where I was. This wasn’t always a bad thing, of course. Writing was what really counted, so embedded in me that everything else disappeared. Those things were just extras, the parts of me that didn’t really matter. It didn’t occur to me that writing was not, in fact, my entire identity, that there was far more about me - my intelligence, my sense of humor, my love of reading and crossword puzzles and movies starring Kate Winslet - than just the words I wrote on a page. After all, it wasn’t just my job, but my life any day that went by without writing I counted as a failure, a sign of laziness that only encouraged me to write more the next day. If you’d asked me who I was back then, the answer would’ve been simple: a writer. If even a superstar like Biles had trouble separating herself from her work - what did that say about the rest of us?
SIMONE BIKES QUITTER FULL
I was doing as well as I could ever have hoped, living out the dreams of the 8-year-old who kept journals full of stories and pictures of Judy Blume and J.K. By the time I was 25, I was editing writers twice my age and talking to literary agents about representation. Every time I published a new personal essay, or a profile of a celebrity, or an op-ed for a newspaper, the applause flew in: I was talented, I was original, I was ambitious and inspiring and brave. I was already getting enough praise for the writing I did release, not only from my editors, but from my peers and other writers. Some of these pieces I published, either on the website I worked for or in other outlets, but many I kept for myself, holding on to them until they were ready for the world to read. In addition to the writing I did at my job, I wrote hundreds of pages on my own - long, lyrical essays on everything from relationships to body image. I loved what I did, and I was good at it - so good, in fact, that I was hired full-time by a company before I’d even gotten my degree. Before long, I was spending my days balancing classes and work, which, at that time, meant writing news stories on celebrity gossip and awards-show analyses. In college, I wasted no time finding job opportunities within the field, applying for internships at magazines and cold-emailing editors I’d grown up reading.
There was no point at which I decided to pursue writing as a career - it had always been my path, as ingrained in my sense of self as my hair color or my name. At home, I wrote 60-page “books” and honed the voice that would eventually become my signature style. In school, I took every English class I could find and wrote poetry so dark, the counselor called my parents. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a writer. But I do know what it’s like to feel so connected to your work and achievements that they become not just one part of your identity, but all of it. Patituce added that Biles-Thomas has maintained his innocence for the last two and a half years “because he is frankly innocent of these charges and today we were able to see that the state had absolutely no evidence that he was guilty of this offense.I am not an athlete, nor have I ever faced the level of pressure someone like Biles experiences on a regular basis.
So, we understand emotions were running high,” Biles-Thomas attorney, Joe Patituce, said.”But today, Tevin Biles was vindicated, what he’s waited to get for the last two and half years.” “This was a horrible tragedy, three families lost three family members and you know, absolutely horrific. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.įollowing the judge’s ruling, a person in the gallery charged towards Biles-Thomas but was stopped by sheriff’s deputies, Toms said, adding that “the Court thanks the Sheriff’s Department for their assistance.” That fight led to the shooting and multiple people were hit – two of whom died at the scene and a third who later died at a hospital.Ĭleveland police had identified Biles-Thomas as the shooter.
On the night of the shooting, a group of uninvited guests walked into a home and a fight began, Ohio authorities previously said. Tevin Biles-Thomas Liberty County Sheriffīrother of Olympic gymnast Simone Biles pleads not guilty in Cleveland triple slaying
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