We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from coming Natalie Goldberg I first heard of Natalie Goldberg's book “Writing Down the Bones” from a Tiktok. Now, I'm not proud to say that some nights I stay up and get sucked down an app into the late hours of the night, but I'm Gen Z. Call it diplomatic immunity. So there I was, doom-scrolling, liking anything in the mere split second I see something aesthetic or remotely interesting and skipping in an even shorter split second (would this be 1/4th second?) to videos hot-wired in my brain to be uninteresting. Until I saw this tiktok that told me to keep a writing practice. This guy had optimism seep through him and he held up this small red moleskine, enthusiastic, life-chaning-esque music in the background. He went on about how every morning he would write in this small red notebook and explained Julia Cameron's idea of Morning Pages from her book, The Artist's Way. Essentially, you drag yourself out of bed and write for 20 mins. Anything on the subconscious will just flow from your doom-scrolled brain to your hand that hasn't written anything besides grocery lists. He also said that it was kind of like his little self-study project, he figured that writing at the ass crack of dawn would make him more honest and would put a little less self-judgement in the things he wrote. I said, I like this idea (I like it Picasso) and I'll do it and wake-up at 7:00am (I didn't wake up, but I did write).
I just want to say that this was a nice comfort read :< thank you for this and also for the book recos!