Another writing update on a nonwriting update day but I had such a beautiful time at the Writing Center today. A whole 5,000 words of a good time. I won’t vouch for the quality of the words, but I felt like I got in a flow state after the first thouand and I just wanted to keep going. When the center closed I went back onto their trails and finished writing on a bench in the woods. Hopefully, I didn’t use up all my juice for when I go back tomorrow.
I’ve been in my head lately — I’m still pretty in my head most of the time — but writing takes me out of it in the same way a good book does. But writing feels like creation, building something, extracting some truths about myself when the truths are hard to find. Then revise.
At dinner, with my parents, I can’t shut up about it. I don’t want to. Isn’t it so much more interesting than talking about work all time? I’d rather explain word count and brainstorm title ideas than talk about how I got stressed out on a work project.
No shade to my job — I love my job — but it’s so important to make time to work for yourself, whatever that means. In this season of my life, it’s writing again. Wherever my writing ever goes it’s worth it just to feel like this — a day well spent getting words out on the page.
With Love,
Natalie