What Authors Can Learn From The Tortured Poets Department

Here’s some of the things that I am personally taking away from listening to this iconic–and polarizing–album.

You left your typewriter at my apartment
Straight from the tortured poets department
I think some things I never say
Like, “Who uses typewriters anyway?”

– Taylor Swift, “Tortured Poets Department”

The power of vulnerability

The intimacy of these songs slams you over the head. It really is tortured, and it’s not always pretty. But for many, many listeners, the visceral emotion o...