A while back, I shared that I would start incorporating:

Daily Writing Prompt Responses

WordPress drops questions regularly to the community and I’m liking this one.

This question stirs my heart. I don’t see writing as something that I just enjoy. Writing is my:

Lifeline

I discovered this when I was going through a painful experience in my life that I didn’t know how to properly and safely navigate. I had a friend that I would talk to – to some extent. But my journal, like God, was always there. Efffffffff! Now I want to cry.

I ain’t droppin any tears right now cause my mascara is not waterproof and I have a lunch meeting soon!

Anywho, with writing. I could go to a blank page and just let my feelings rip out of my heart and onto the page like Beyblade! It didn’t matter if my writing was a hot mess. Or if my thoughts didn’t connect. It was getting out of me. It was a way of validating my experiences and unscrambling my pain. The pages were like – “Yea – I see what’s happening even if no one else does.”.

It’s just realness – no performance.

I’m telling you it’s like prayer – how I talk with God.

I straight up tell God ” I like doing X, Y, and Z – A LOT. I don’t believe it’s good for me, but ooh weee me want moreeeeee! I’m really liking it. Take the desire away from me else imma keep doing it.”

No sugarcoating

I speak from my heart and then move along.

That’s why I enjoy writing! I write and TYPE from my heart!

It helps me to express myself in ways that I may not in a face to face conversation with someone.

Words really matter to me. Being precise also matters to me. Writing allows me to lean into that.

Even with my fashion. I often take a liking to earrings not just because of the design, but because of the description. Baublebar always gets me giggling with their creativity!

Also, I have learned that when I’m typing – I will just keep click clackin away on this mechanical keyboard. The sound of the keys is ASMR comforting – like having a friend saying, mhm!

When I just type – I start to feel better.

Then when I read what I wrote – I begin to see clues about my own self and a lot of times end up laughing. Crying too – but it usually results in laughter.

My writing here is usually about my life and lessons – plus lifestyle stuff.

But privately, I have writings where I’ve unpacked my experiences and even transformed them into poetry, raps, skits, and comedy. It happens naturally.

This spring, I was surrounded by comedic writers and we were just writing our own stuff. You guys – I was with them, but fully in my own world just writing away. More and more lines kept flowing to me. For these sessions, I used my notebook. My handwriting couldn’t keep up with the flow of the ideas coming to me! I was writing soo fast and sloppy to try to not lose the lines! Which I do not like – cause like where is the notebook now?!? bahahahaha – so I prefer using my Google Keep or typing at my computer. They provide some level of organization and search capability.

I’m a very fast typist and again, I can be all over. Jumping from one topic/experience to another – kinda ping ponging. Being able to pull pieces together to make it – make sense for myself and others is more easily done when using the phone or computer.

I enjoy writing cause there really are no rules. Unless, you want to make it digestible for others.

I like notebooks because they naturally encourage me to focus by their confined structure. But even in that, I’ve learned I don’t like it so much. If the notebook has lines – I pretty much ignore them lol. I lean towards unlined notebooks or even sketchbooks – so I can define my own structure.

I write like I think – not to be impressive.

I love how writing helps me to make sense of my experiences, others, and myself. The blank pages and blank screens, can bare the weight of fully seeing me. In ways, that humans are not able to. These writing canvases know how to hold space and don’t rush me – it’s just there.

If I sit at a blank document screen crying, ticked off, or laughing – it says nothing. The caret holds the line and just stays blinking. How caring is that?

No – will you get to the point!

No – what are you talking about?!?

It’s just there – each blink showing that’s it’s there.

There – like how God is.

I’m not going to tell you what to do, but I encourage you to sit at a blank screen and just start typing what’s on your heart – don’t look at previously typed lines….don’t analyze – don’t edit….just keep typing and typing and typing until you have nothing else to pour out.

If you do this, let me know how you felt expressing yourself in this manner.

Choose Write,