A friend and fellow writer posted this for me to read today. She said it made her tear up, but she might just be tired. I said it made me tear up too, but I also might be tired. I don’t think so, though. I think it’s just the truth.
It’s worth a read, both for writers (female ones, I suppose, although I imagine much of it describes male writers as well) and their partners. I sent it to mine, and he concurred with basically all of it.
“She will not always tell you how she feels out loud.
And even if she does, trust to the fact that she’s rolled it around in her brain (and possibly her journal) for quite some time before she comes out with it. Her words are her tools, her armor. She’s best with them when she can shift and spin them on the page. In her throat, sometimes they get caught and fall out all at once—or worse—slide back down and vanish until they flow through her fingers into her next story.”
If I could make people understand one thing about me, it might be what that quote above outlines.
achristinewriter
So true. I get so frustrated when I finally open my mouth to say something – after spending hours, days, weeks, months, even years – figuring out what to say … and then it’s dismissed as though I haven’t thought about it at all.
It’s a good thing writing’s good therapy.