Why I'm No Longer Scared of Dying Alone: How I landed my first byline for The Washington Post

How I did it + the essay

Dying alone. I thought about it. I still think about it. I’m single — so it’s a real possibility that maybe I’ll die alone. Do I want to die alone? No. Do we all in essence die alone? Yes, but that’s not the same as dying alone as a single person. Especially as a single woman. There’s a different resonance to it. As I wrote in the essay that will be det…