Writing Prompt

My Writing Is Held Back by Others’ Shame

Alicia M Prater, PhD
CRY Magazine
Published in
4 min readMar 1, 2022

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Writing is a very personal thing. Even when it’s a reference article, you have to become close to the subject matter and process what it means in order to convey anything of substance to the reader. I’ve done this with sensitive topics like death and disease for two decades and makes me even less likely now to filter my thoughts. Or maybe the lack of filter has always…

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Alicia M Prater, PhD
CRY Magazine

Scientific editor with Medical Science PhD, former researcher and lecturer, long-time writer and genealogist