Now that I’m entering a new phase of job searching (actively searching for the next writers’ assistant job), I’m returning to the familiar step of writing lengthy catch-up & ask-for-help emails half of every day. It’s fatiguing, but also - I remind myself - another form of writing. It’s a specific audience, each person needs to be addressed in a unique way. Does this immersive correspondence, day in and day out, contribute to my writing skills in any way? It’s hard to say, too many confounding factors with my video essay writing and other assignments going on at the same time. But either way it needs to be done…