Why do you write? Why do you think writing is important? Today, take a moment to reflect on and consider why the writing process is important in general, and to you specifically. And then share what you write with us so we can have a dialogue about it!
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Writing a poem for Earth Day this week, for this week’s writing prompt, has been an interesting experience for me. It ended up being more enjoyable than I thought it would be.
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After working on this week’s writing prompt throughout the week, I realized that the best way for me to understand what is stressing me out is to write about it. And to continue to write about it.
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What have you done to mitigate your stress as you’re writing about what’s stressing you out this week, for this week’s writing prompt? At first, getting out what’s stressing you out is liberating, and seems to release an invisible weight off your chest… until thoughts like, “Well, now what?” start to creep in…
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Every time I think that maybe I bit off more than I can chew for this week’s writing prompt: Write A Short Essay About Justice, I try to remind myself that it’s only a SHORT ESSAY. And, as I mentioned in my post on Monday, that it is a short essay that will likely conclude with “…to be continued…”. So, keeping that in mind, it was a little easier to not feel quite so daunted by this week’s writing prompt in the end.
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Writing a journal entry about 2020, the year of COVID-19, has been an interesting and unexpected journey. A journey I’m still on, I suppose, since COVID-19 is still dictating our daily lives in 2021.
As I write the journal entry for this week’s writing prompt, I’m wishing that I would have taken more meticulous notes about everything that happened in 2020, and what I was feeling and thinking about as everything was unfolding. As I write this journal entry I’m also experiencing a lot of feelings at once: sadness, grief, loneliness, boredom, gratefulness, empathy, compassion, hope, frustration, annoyance… and the list goes on from there. And for me, it’s been interesting to note that as everything was unfolding last year, I wasn’t really noticing how everything, all the day-to-day routines and daily rollercoaster of emotions, were all blurring together and affecting one another.
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Writing this week’s writing prompt is a bit easier than I thought it would be yet more time-consuming than I thought it would be… because once I started looking into what feminism is and isn’t and learning more about the stories and stances of notable feminists, I couldn’t stop. Their philosophies, theories, actions, stories, and work are compelling and have profoundly shaped our modern-day society. And I’m appalled I didn’t know more about most of the feminists I came across and their work much sooner. Or that the work they accomplished that I was familiar with wasn’t even a fraction of what they actually accomplished (and are still accomplishing) for future generations.
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For this week’s writing prompt, I decided to write a dialogue between Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelley. And if I’m being honest, executing such a feat at a more profound level could very well take weeks, if not months. These women have such unique and daring histories and stories and are each audacious and brilliant as individuals. Although they do also have so many similarities that it’s easy to get their legacies and stories confused sometimes. But since I’m only requiring myself to write a draft, for now, I will do my best to imagine only one of what would surely have been many unique exchanges between these two women… if only Mary Wollstonecraft would have lived to see her baby girl grow into a woman.
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Completing this week’s writing prompt offered an unexpected reckoning of my own biases around what’s usually called “Chick Lit,” a subgenre of women’s fiction.
To be honest, I’ve avoided this genre my entire life (both intentionally and unintentionally), as it was always presented to me as subpar or fluff or unimportant, uninteresting, or simply not serious writing. It was writing work that was easy to discard and discredit, just like much of women’s work typically is… And I also avoided it because I thought I had to be a diehard fan of fashion or makeup or weddings or gossip in order to enjoy it. But after diving a little deeper into conversations around chick lit and women’s fiction, I became more intrigued by what I discovered.
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The process behind writing this week’s writing prompt, Write a Journal Entry About a Book You Read on Black History, has included a lot of moments of reflection for me.
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