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Originally Posted by Blueberrybook
I wrote today, after years of not doing it, just 2 poems.
In high school, I wrote all the time, short stories more than poetry and of course, all those English papers and essays as I was in Honors & AP English classes.
And obviously, I have this hypergraphia anyway. But I'd rather not journal or blog, and a lot of my creativity has been zapped by meds. Or maybe even just changes in my brain; I couldn't write when I was pregnant either, and I was off meds until the last month.
I think I'm going to look for one of those sites online that have writing prompts, set a small goal to try a writing prompt, see where it goes. Do it again if I like it. I loved writing so much growing up and miss my connection with it. Online posting doesn't really do it for me.
I was a bit surprised I wrote a second poem after the first; I hadn't seen that one coming. It feels so good when you can do what you know you love to do, even if it's buried deep inside now. I guess the spark is still there, a bit a least. Not going to pressure myself about it though, just try and see. If I try and can write, that's wonderful and if I can't, I can try another day.
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I used to write poetry, too.
I remember long afternoons where I'd just write poems and then store them in my journal
" from shadows to eluminations", for example, is about a day out with the kids and the mother suddenly suffers from BP psymptoms, and is unsure how to tell the child
then their's one I wrote about death, a self harm one, one about being mannic and one about christmas (from a depressed point of view). I was going to write one from a manic point of view, but I never got round to it.
my focus is now on stories
I've finished one (about a families trip to orlando), and I'm working on a couple at a time- one about a ghost that lives inside a child, one about a boy who gets a chance to go on a tv show, one about a tv show that got canceled that I really liked, and also a collection of dark fairytales
I love to write