The Non Writers Blog

What is written remains!

I don’t like writing…in fact I am ashamed and self conscious about my writing. But I decided to start writing blog posts any ways..because YOLO!!

I believe my unique relationship with writing started when I was in 6th grade and had a classmate who was a beautiful story teller…every Friday afternoon she would read to the whole class these short stories or chapters of an ongoing story…I was enamored by the way she told a story…her use of structure, proper enunciation and pronunciation of words that just flowed out of her mouth. She inspired me (back then) to dabble with writing …but time and time again I would show my writing to different people (mostly English teachers) who made me feel like my knowledge level when it comes to the proper use of language is not even close to mediocre …and they would tell me all the fixes that need to be done so it can sound “good”…The problem was by the time all the fixes were made it was no longer the story that was in my mind and heart  but someone else’s story. That made me dislike writing a lot… after all who likes to be criticized over and over again… 

My choices with writing has been following me like a dark shadow…So I decided to do start posting blog posts..not because I am an amazing writer..but because I want to be able to face my fear, my shame and my self criticism …I want to grow from it…I want to not seek perfection and just enjoy writing..without having the fear that something is missing ..something is wrong…

By choice and default I am a deep thinker…. I am always exploring a thought/a question to the deep hole …. I have been told my many self discovery assessments that writing would be beneficial for me… or that I might even be a beautiful writer (I will believe it when I write it and read it)

So yes…here I am making my shadow visible… attempting to have fun and most importantly face my fear…

Wish me luck

Xoxo

The Soulful Migrant