Welcome to this ninth/IX/9th writing club update!
Happy mid-March to you all, my well lettered friends. I hope you’ve been graced with some nice weather as we in the northern hemisphere enter into the warmer time of the year. Today is delightfully dreary and overcast where I’m at, which I’m hoping to channel into some indoor creativity.
Okay! Here are the Writers:
Please see last month’s post if you need to refresh your memory on what your goals were.
Just an FYI that while “membership” in the writing club is fluid and open, so too are the names above simply my best guess, without judgement, at who is participating on any particular month. So if you don’t see your name up there and you’d like me to add it, just shoot me a DM or even better just share what you’re working on and you’ll be added right back to the roster the following month. :)
This month I hardly began progress on my thesis before having my heart broken. I’m trying to get back into the habit of writing daily, but some days I can hardly focus on a single sentence for more than a few minutes.
Perhaps I can write about the breakup. Maybe that will help.
Edit: It’s been relieving to read through everyone else’s updates. I’m not going to set a goal for the next month, it seems to daunting to me right now. I’ll write back soon.
Ouch, I’m sorry to hear about your breakup. There might be something to your idea of writing about it, though. I’m sure that’s been the catalyst to countless creative works.
If nothing else, I recommend writing about your feelings in a diary. Even if you end up throwing the pages away. I personally have found it useful to get these feelings out of my head and on to a page.
Jon Kalman Stefansson, an Icelandic writer, once said: “Writers are machines that turn grief into words”. I personally don’t get inspired by grief, but getting words down (to a diary, to a page that you will burn, etc) is definitely therapeutic!