Writing It Out

[LibraryLove]

So my anxiety and depression isn’t a great and I’ve tried journaling, just writing out my thoughts and feelings, and that doesn’t get me too far. But what I did find that worked was taking my thoughts and feelings, and placing them in a fictional setting and using it as inspiration to create this story. The point was to help me just feel that emotional release and try to understand myself better...it’s been two months and I have typed up 72 pages of this story and I have so much more I want to put in it. The actual writing of it is really poor and I’ll never show it to anyone until I go back and edit it. But I just wanted to share with someone this success I’ve had and just how excited I am that I’ve gotten this far. It’s a new way of coping and reflecting for me and I can’t remember the last time something liked this worked so well.

[teemo1]

That's encouraging because I've been journaling as well and have been planning to write some anxiety-related stories as therapy. Maybe if we revise enough we'll eventually have stories ready for publishing!

[LibraryLove in reply to teemo1]

Yes yes!!

[HelpWanted92]

Wow that is amazing. I would love to try to do something like that. Writing things out has always comforted me

[LibraryLove in reply to HelpWanted92]

It’s super helpful for me. I feel so much better and invigorated whenever I write a good chapter. I’m not thinking to hard about how it’s sounding right now. If you try it, don’t get caught up in telling yourself no one will read this because it’s not good. Write it for yourself and no one else. Put whatever you want down, no matter how lame or juvenile it sounds. I counted out the pages I have so far and I couldn’t believe I had 72. That’s more than my college thesis! And I’m still going

[mrmonk]

That's really great, LibraryLove! Seventy-two pages of prose is quite an accomplishment, already; I bet it's exciting to think of where you can go from there. And what a (forgive the bad pun) novel way to work through your problems! Writing can be so therapeutic sometimes. I'm happy for your success! 😺

[Redfox9]

amazing work LibraryLove, keep it up, and you can edit your story to publish it.

[Hidden]

Thats great. writing things out is a great release like exercise.

[LibraryLove in reply to Hidden]

It is! And I had never heard of actual fiction writing, which is what I do. People always talking abut journaling your feelings but that doesn’t help me for the most part. Putting it into a story with characters has made such a difference

[Hidden in reply to LibraryLove]

Yes ..great idea..thats going to be a great book.

[Lindsey14]

Writing helps me a lot as well

[Hidden]

Hey, hope you're having a productive day... You know, if we

(and others) didn't make the effort to write while undergoing "drama",

there would be fewer books, movies, plays, etc...

Good, bad or indifferent: write it down!!!...& include the date! That's important; it's a discipline...

Here's some quotes for y'all:

1.) "Science is a discipline to be done with passion. Art is a passion to be performed with discipline."

2.) Creativity is not a talent; it is a way of operating." ...John Cleese

3.) "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare think." ...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4.) "It seems to show that as we grow, our personal inventions...

may misconstrue the initial view others have of our intentions."

...(me, in high school, 1966)

Also, if I may, a poem fragment I wrote (while in the throes of Ritalin withdrawl 1969...cut off after on it for 10 years from Jr. high to college...:

"...and pray he does

that a higher love

may guide them in that fashion;

silencing hopeless haters;

filling others with compassion__

to fill tomorrow with lovers

who'll join hands in trust

before this tired world quakes again

and turns back into dust."

I was 22 years old; now I'm 71.

Oh, if you could see the world through my eyes...and I thought I'd be dead by the age of 33...Art, music & especially LOVE has kept me alive all this time. I wish you and yours the same. Bless you all!

[LibraryLove in reply to Hidden]

Thanks for sharing this!