Writing Through Your Body
It’s not what is popular, it’s not what you saw someone else write and ascend to stardom.
It’s what’s true to you, while knowing it most probably will be true for someone else.
This way we articulate and materialize states of being into a written form, translating and mirroring these unspoken ideas for those who need that articulation.
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It’s what’s true to you, while knowing it most probably will be true for someone else.
This way we articulate and materialize states of being into a written form, translating and mirroring these unspoken ideas for those who need that articulation.
Let your body... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
To write is to walk a labyrinth. To make art is to walk a labyrinth.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Your readers will also sense the same flatness when you write something that does not stir a bone in your own home.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
But rarely do we feel safe while telling the truth that comes from our bodies. Especially, when truth is not allowed in our families, households, work, schools, societies. Today, people get arrested, sentenced, and killed for telling, writing, and publishing truth. And with them, dies a larger body of humanity. There is no future without people who... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Body is a Labyrinth. Body is the red thread. Through it you go to find what feels truthful, real. You bring back the lifewater and a calcified memory of what kills truths and ideas. The red thread is the map: for each time you enter the labyrinth—the path will be rearranged.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
To write is to acclimatize your body to a continuous sensation of truth and move deeper into it. It strengthens, it supports, it gusts flexibility. Something turns in your stomach. Your heart opens to a potential new stream of thought. A valve decalcifies.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
All of this is a practice and act of fine-tuning the feeling instrument. Re-sensitizing the body, giving permission to feel and discern.
Permission to feel and discern .
Permission to feel and discern .
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
What feels true? Which words find resonance between your tissues?
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Good writing will reflect in your nervous system. While reading, you will be able to focus, and ultimately, calm down. Some parts of you will be soothed, some—activated. And that particular sensation of soothing will come from reading some kind of truth .