Write Deeply, Feel Deeply.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. —William Wordsworth.
If there’s one question people have asked me more often than I can count, it is how I write the way I write. Although, I have tried to explain using the many analysis of my life that I’d done. However, I don’t think I’d ever been able to truly explain it until recently.
In this quarter, I have been in my feelings quite a lot and the last few days I have avoided certain apps and just had time to dig around in my head and to hear my thoughts and I finally uncovered the one thing I think differentiates my writing.
Writing deeply.
When it comes to my writing, even the ones I do for commercial reason, I always dig deep into the deep recess of my soul and to write from that place that is raw and often times bleeding. Then, I edit with my head but that's not the point. We're on to writing. We'll handle editing later.
That meant that to write deeply, I had to feel deeply.
I had to even feel the many emotions that I would like to convey to my reader in many degrees and variations. While this might make my writing cool, it certainly wrecks havoc on my personal life.
It means I am a little sensitive than most. It means I'm prone to overthinking. It means I live in my head a lot. It means what might be a slight tremor to others is an earthquake to me. It means feeling a thousand and one things at once and constantly juggling the nagging feeling that I might be losing my mind.
I admit that I still haven't gotten the hang of how to have these feelings under control. Nevertheless, I give myself credit for learning how to function despite those feelings. Many times, I want to call in and say, "I'm sorry but I can't handle this task right now because I'm currently having an internal crisis and trying to sort through my feelings all at once."
I am learning to instead recognize that this feeling is important and a certain character of mine that I'm creating is going through such so, I am able to utilize those feelings to build character arcs or to sit down and download my heart in an article for you.
Still, I feel a tinge of shame for having to feel these things the way I do. From being sensitive and thus being termed, "emotional."
I don't have a moral lesson from this bit but I do know that to write those articles that makes people stop in their tracks or gives them a certain fuzziness in their belly, you have to feel the world in that manner and write from that place.
In other words, feel deeply, write deeply.
