Heckadoodle! It’s gonna be such a fun read for you I bet!

I find it funny that instead of being depressed in the winter like most, I struggle with it during the summer since where I live, it’s actually harder to get sunlight and fresh air due to oppressive heat and humidity. So I’m looking forward for the changing of the season!

The mania siren song is powerful and persuasive isn’t it ?

I’m similar in a way! I always feel like I’m an imposter because while I have been writing as long as I can remember, it was never The Main Thing in my life. It was just assumed that whatever I did, I was writing in the background of it. Now Im fully focused but a touch lost.

The fact that the official P&W peeps responded to my post had me massively fangirling ngl #writingcommunity

My #1 struggle is that I have no idea how to title my poetry. Literally every work has been numbered and ordered but ask me to basically synthesize the whole thing before it gets read feels so silly to me.

I feel this way too after receiving only rejections so far on the poetry I’ve sent out. It’s hard not to internalize it! Remember tho that even Slyvia Plath had to remind herself that “I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” And that’s the important point

Oh! So when I was first getting into writing I also had this problem, I ended up making it a point of having different stages of editing where I shifted my focus. The first stage generally involved clarifying and expanding, and the second stage was primarily focused on efficiency and specificity!

I’ve found that sometimes the brain needs to be able to absorb and sit on its creative potential from time to time! Sort of needs to sublimate concepts before it becomes able to be expressed. Like a cooked steak resting before being served to guests!

Wait there’s houses that have proper insulation and don’t have to pay an arm and a leg just to find out that they have been providing ac for the colony of squirrels who throw nuts at the anyone thinks they have a right to use the front door to get in and out?

I am forever thankful for the fact that I got to read this as a “baby” writer. It’s like a hack to skip the very basics of the journey to become a writer!

I think you would like this idea of mine that what attracts us to art is that it has a sort of richness due to the fact that it is created with intention, and then layered by the intention of those who consume it. Every time this happens it adds layers of meaning. It explains why the urge to create.

Maybe it’s a sort of way to cope with the fact that for a majority of the population, there is a lack of ability to control any aspect of their lives, so it serves as a way to keep them from becoming even more vindictive of the people who seemingly have chances that they don’t.

#freetheferal another reminder that maybe I don’t have to hide the fact that my personality is a pack of rabid raccoons in a trench-coat spam pushing buttons to mimic a functional human