On Writing
I have had a blog since I was 12 years old. Nobody really knew about it. It was just where I went to journal online back in the 90's in secret.
tl;dr I’m still here, just giving myself more time to develop better quality and more meaningful writing. So the new post schedule: spontaneous. Up ahead: I tell you a story that explains why.
I have had a blog since I was 12 years old. Nobody really knew about it. It was just where I went to journal online back in the 90's in secret. I would collect my most challenging thoughts and share them only with those I had deemed worthy. This was before social media was even a thing.
But when it became a thing? I tried to use it the same way I had used my blog. I tried use YouTube and TikTok like I did then. None of this has ever worked out for me, because in the end, all I ever really wanted to do was write. Not market, not “create content”, not become an entrepreneur. Not edit video, or start and etsy shop.
All I have ever wanted to do was write and have the people it was meant to reach: get it.
Writing something here once per week for a couple of months was cathartic at first, but then it became a chore. I ran out of surface level things I was excited about and was confronted with how little I understood about why I write. About how I write. And, about who I write for.
I realized that I did want to keep doing this but that if I did I was going to have to fundamentally shift the way I was doing things to keep them sustainable and meaningful. So a few weeks ago, as I was struggling to bring together any coherent thoughts on Sinners: I went to my favorite bookstore, and for the first time ever, went to their Writing section.
I was on a pretty tight budget at the time so I told myself that the first book I came across that simultaneously caught my attention AND was under $10 would be the book I’d buy. And that is how I stumbled into Deep Writing by Eric Maisel.
The exercises in this book have absolutely shifted the way I relate to my writing and my writing process. Somehow, it has completely reconnected me to the artful way I used to write back before my relationship to learning&journaling was wrecked by the peril of getting a Master’s Degree back in 2017-2019.
So, I’m gonna stop telling you about upcoming posts UNLESS, they are completely finished and scheduled to be published, OR I need your help writing them. I have found that I absolutely cannot predict when a piece of writing will be done, because writing is ART. It is not methodical. It does not obey time. More coming soon.
Stay Creating,
✎ᝰ. QQreating