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When I was a little girl I would write stories... I once attempted to write a novel... I may have gotten 3 chapters in and abandoned the project.
When I was a teenager I wrote dark poetry... in fact a poem that I titled "Death" made it into the book that my school published.
Thankfully I grew out of that dark time... and now I write because the questions need a place to live... I write because my thoughts need an avenue to stroll... I write because sometimes its a better idea than telling that person face to face.
I read the writing of others... I read to expand my thoughts... to relate to others... to adopt tidbits of others ideas... to change my life... because that's what writing does for me... mine and others.
Its therapy... it is calm... it is emotional... it is connection... it is community.
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Yep, you about summed it up! So glad you grew out of the "dark" stage!
ReplyDeleteAh, Sarah ... YES! Those 'questions need a place to live.' To marinate, to be handled and sorted and sat with for a spell. And then released to the One who can guide us to answers ... maybe not the ones we hoped for, but surely the ones we need.
ReplyDeleteSo good to meet you!
You summed up so well what writing is to me too, especially that it's therapy! :)
ReplyDeleteI love this: "I write because the questions need a place to live... I write because my thoughts need an avenue to stroll." What a gift that God grows our ways of writing as he faithfully grows us. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWriting truly is good therapy! Thanks for sharing yours.
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