Category: On Writing

  • Writing for Mental Health: Finding Creative Expression in Everyday Feelings

    Writing for Mental Health: Finding Creative Expression in Everyday Feelings

    I began writing before I understood why I needed it. My first journal arrived when I was six, and I used it to record the world as I saw it: small observations, fleeting wonders, fragments of days. At first, I was simply documenting. Then I began to marvel. And somewhere along the way, writing became…

  • NaNoWriMo and Rediscovering the Joy of Writing

    NaNoWriMo and Rediscovering the Joy of Writing

    A blank cork board on Scrivener holds so many possibilities. Every year I talk to fellow writers just around November, and we discuss the quiet dread that surrounds NaNo: deadlines, timeframes, word counts, ideas. Some spend entire October planing and plotting for November just to unleash the ideas and fulfill the daily quota. And for…