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I’ve been writing a lot lately! In my journal, for publications, long emails to friends. It’s quite wonderful. I love going back to read what I wrote too. I love going back to those moments. sometimes I write peoples names and what I appreciate about them, sometimes I write what I want to achieve in that month, sometimes I write book reviews or film reviews or whatever it is I feel the need to write about in that time. I recently wrote about what my city sounds like and I wonder if those sounds will change. If or when they do, I’ll get to go back to that piece and remember - or when I leave this city I’ll have that article as a reminder and I’ll be able to travel back in time. It’s documenting history.
Apr 14, 2024
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The other day I went to a coffee shop with the intention of reading my book but instead spent about two hours writing in my journal.
I’m not a great journaler. It’s the kind of relationship where I’ll pick it up when I’m going through something, be really consistent for a couple days, and then once I’m feeling lighter I won’t touch it for months.
I’m definitely not in the easiest season of life right now, but im not actively shittingscreamingcryingthrowingup about anything at the moment. For some reason though, despite my mentally “up” state of being, I was desperate to write down everything I’ve been thinking and feeling in the past couple weeks.
I honestly think it’s why the past couple days I haven’t posted anything on this app is because anything I would’ve mused about I already wrote in my journal lol. I even considered just taking a picture of the journal pages and posting them here but that felt too intimate? Maybe?
Feb 23, 2025
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personally i write when i feel a Big Emotion or i think i’ve reached an epiphany on something. i write on scrap paper, in my journal or in my notes app. i used to write movie reviews for my uni’s magazine but my workload got too hectic. i also write for the performance of having written something sometimes you know. i used to do more god awful poetry when i was younger but currently in my free thought prose bag. i share my writing with my friends mostly. i’ve got a substack but just never posted on there. most importantly for me anyways i write so in a couple months i can look back amused at what i had going on. also want to try and write from a non personal standpoint. but hope this was helpful!!
Mar 18, 2024
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idk if anyone else has this experience but been journaling all my life. Could write a book fr
But sometimes I get caught up in more of what I think about feels like ~productive journaling~. Journaling about values, goals, stuff that’s happened and my feelings about situations and experiences I have had
This all feels …. Good, but too productive
I’ve been taking moments to write about what’s directly in front of me And instead painting a picture of whatever immediate scene im in. “I’m on a train , it’s dark, the only way I know there’s houses on the hills in the distance is by their glowing light through the windows”
It’s helped me tap into a different part of my brain & feels really good. There have been periods where I don’t focus on this type of stuff while writing.
Just a reminder to pause ❤️
Nov 12, 2024
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I‘m wondering why we stopped having blogs and writing essays? I want to hear people’s thoughts. I want to share my thoughts! and I don’t want to see these thoughts in a few sentences on twitter or a short Instagram post. I need a 1000+ word essay with images, links, references, book recs, and everything else. I wanna know what’s going on inside your brain.
Feb 20, 2024
I need to share this list I made because it is such a blessing to me that I can just open youtube or vimeo and watch these lovely little movies. there’s a range of them like bergman, tarkovsky, polish films, art-house, weird matthew gray gubler short, experimental horror, short films from the 20’s. how fun.
Jun 8, 2024