Fear, ideas, and writing

A unstressful beginning

Freedom can be found in many ways. For me, putting pen to paper without previous thoughts or ideas used to be one of them. The action of writing drove me to express myself, to get what was struggling inside me out into the world. In those moments –as long as they turned out to be– I had no worries, no second thoughts, no judgments. I was, simply put: free.

As a child, unknowing of the judgment and criticism works of art are subjected to, writing short stories meant hou...