Write the people you know letters.

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

Aldous Huxley.

I wonder if we’d know what we do about who Sylvia Plath was, or Franz Kafka or Orwell, or even Emerson if it weren’t for their extensive journals and diaries. Recorded like memory capsules, in their voices with their own eyes. You may not be Kafka, but you possess the magic to write if you are lucky, so how can you do nothing about it? I’ve... See more

Draw. Sketch. Pictures.

Essays.

“I live the same day everyday, what would I write about?” she asked.

That.

Write before your memory becomes too unreliable, write before your pen starts to tremble or your vision goes away. Tell it all, even the ordinary and most uninteresting things, your stories matter my darling.

If you’re not journaling, you’re basically letting life’s best secrets slip through the cracks of your forgetful brain.

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”

Louis L'Amour

You don’t always have to write for yourself. Write for someone next to you, around you, a stranger, someone you know. You can never run out of people, you can never run out of words. I find myself writing for strangers all the time. This was in Lisbon, 2023. For a woman, all alone, right by the water while I listened to Tom Waits— I hope I don’t... See more