A Writer's World

My grandmother once told me that writing wasn’t an escape, it was just something she did.
She didn’t look at it to be some other form of living or a place she would hide out.
It was a piece of her that no one else quite understood; the way her words danced across paper with her beautiful penmanship, becoming a new art form.

Junot Diaz once described a writer as someone who writes, not just because they can.
Diaz said, “A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows signs of promise, you keep writing anyway.”

Sometimes we’re not looking to market on the things we say; we’re merely speaking, wondering if anyone will hear us.
It doesn’t matter who locks into our statements, who picks apart our careful syllables, or who hangs on our every word.
It doesn’t matter who looks through us in these moments of pure vulnerability.
All that matters is that we’re speaking anyway.

Sometimes we craft words into phrases, weaving in and out of paragraphs we’re secretly hoping a certain someone will see.
But at the end of the day, we’re going to say it anyway.
Regardless of who’s listening.

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters I am not. I write to explore all the things I am afraid of.” – Joss Whedon

Writing may put you at the reader’s mercy, as you carefully wait for a response.
But sometimes, it’s not the response or even a reaction you need.
You own everything that happens to you, and you deserve to tell those stories, whether or not someone wants to hear them.


Writers are those who can’t always say things out loud.
Our hearts speak with pen to paper.
We’re continually jumping off cliffs, waiting to sprout wings.
Our sentences sit on the tips of our tongues, only willing themselves to hit trees.
Sometimes there is so much more to say in a notebook of careful phrases, than in the empty spaces friends give us in conversation.


To understand a writer, you first have to speak their language.


“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, what I wanted, and what I fear.” – Joan Didion.

Do not get upset when you stumble upon our self-reflections, because we’re still processing it too.
You might be collateral damage in lost translations, but understand,
 it was never about you.

Writing is an outlet for the introverts.
There is more heart in these words than in a thousand kisses.

Being understood isn't always achievable, but being respected is a necessity.


I am a writer.
I don't always craft things together to make perfect sense.
I scatter my thoughts in a million directions, adding more and more detail with each stroke of a pen.


A writer's work is never finished.
A thought is never fully expressed.
An opinion is never complete.
And the love behind it is infinite.

Welcome to a writer's world.