I resonate with this so much, Eryn. I spoke with a friend recently about writing in general and on substack and he shared that you don't always know what you're writing until you write and eventually you start to see the threads in your work. I've been writing about living with disabilities, among other things, but usually the story is actually about letting go of the need to be productive to prove myself and settling deeply into community.
This is so true for me, too. I wrote a little collection of poems (10 pieces) last year, processing grief, and everything I thought I was going to write about ended up arriving on the page as something else. I'm finishing up a new collection of 10 right now, and although I've been writing almost one piece a day, all the things I thought I wanted to write about haven't appeared.
UNEARTHING THE DEEPER STORY
I resonate with this so much, Eryn. I spoke with a friend recently about writing in general and on substack and he shared that you don't always know what you're writing until you write and eventually you start to see the threads in your work. I've been writing about living with disabilities, among other things, but usually the story is actually about letting go of the need to be productive to prove myself and settling deeply into community.
This is so true for me, too. I wrote a little collection of poems (10 pieces) last year, processing grief, and everything I thought I was going to write about ended up arriving on the page as something else. I'm finishing up a new collection of 10 right now, and although I've been writing almost one piece a day, all the things I thought I wanted to write about haven't appeared.