I became a writer because first off, I can't draw to save my life, aside from the usual stick people or one dimensional houses. Second, I was always better at reading and English in school and I discovered that I could bring words to life if I put my mind to it. As much as I try to be imaginative (I am sometimes) my writing comes from my personal life experiences, my feelings and emotions, my heart, you know? The typical places, I guess. When I write my poetry especially, I'm kind of a "bleeding heart." Not all of my poems are directly related to anything that might have happened to me but the majority of them have something to do with either guilt, heart break, pain, sorrow,despair, kind of a common thread with me in my waking life. It is easier for me to create a poem when I can connect to it. My "journal" entries are generally me bitching or reminiscing on random topics and memories. I have about 7 notebooks, only one fully finished, that I used to write in just to have someone to "talk to". It made me feel good to write about my day, anything, everything. I would just write and write and I didn't have to worry about how I sounded, if I was annoying other people. No, I knew the notebook wasn't going anywhere (unless it somehow magically grew legs and ran away) and it was my escape to this own world I had made in my mind where I had never felt such peace and comfort. I always hated it when people would say to go find my happy place (in my mind, not physically) and I didn't know where to go. Now, I have found it, it is in my writing, whether it is on a laptop, a diary, hell even on a scrap of a napkin, I can and will write anywhere to find my happy place. Freeing my mind is the best release I could give to myself thru my writing.
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About the AuthorI got the idea to create a blog in December 2014 on a random type of day.Writing has always been therapeutic; the only way I could communicate clearly, in actual words instead of struggling to unscramble the swirl of images, metaphors & analogies that is my thought process. In short, Archives
February 2020
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