What is writing to you?
Hey everyone,
If you are a writer or enjoy writing, I did this exercise in my Writing Workshops course with Write Well based in the UK. I thought I would share this with you so you could also explore what writing is to you as well. If you want, you can share if you did this in the comments. 
. Thanks for reading and have a great day!
When I write … my mind …
My mind is exploring, discovering, releasing, sometimes in pain, sometimes reflecting, sometimes overjoyed and grateful. Sometimes exploring characters and creating worlds and sometimes creating communication but when I write I write to experience the world and know my true thoughts. When I write I can fully explore who I am (and also explore others’ actions) and I can explore how I am thinking at a certain time and feeling, and then look back on it and rediscover again from hindsight.
My mind often feels freer when I write, as I release emotions and negative memories and stored stories, and my mind often relaxes and floats down the cool, green stream with the dank smell of the banks nearby, on a lilo in a peaceful afternoon, with trees standing silent, dignified and beautiful overhead.
When I write … my body …
I am often not aware of my body when I write, which is probably a bad thing. I think initially it feels tense in the beginning but gradually becomes more released. But the truth is I need to connect more to my body in writing and access this.
When I write … my spirit …
My spirit is lifted often to more spiritual understanding when I write, as God communicates with me and also I am accessing a deep level of my spirit and my soul and finding out how I really feel and where I am. It is such a sometimes painful but always uplifting thing as I commune with God through my writing. It is a place we can express pain, sadness, grief, anger and it allows my spirit and my soul to connect to His spirit and be closer to Him. Writing is also a great way for God to communicate with me and He reveals things about myself to me and about other things, people and situations.
I believe writing …
Is spiritual, is transformative, takes us to another place, I believe writing is healing, is exploring, creating and communicating to others, writing facilitates empathy between people and writing also heals us, as well as others when they read it.
Writing is powerful and I was so excited when I first read my first word at the age of five, I am blessed by writing. I couldn’t live without it. I experience life through it. I can describe life, delve into life through it and also enhance my life through writing and words. Writing is everything to me, and I want to do it more and more.
A poem can unify people, enlighten and heal people.
Writing is …(metaphors) like a beautiful clear stream pulling me along in a gentle current, it can also be an ocean that surges and pulls and dumps me on the beach, but then is tranquil and the most transparent and clear blue on white sandy beaches. Writing takes on different forms but is fluid like a river, or the ocean, it is my friend, my solace, and my release from what I am going through. It is a divine gift.
The gifts of writing are …to me the ability to create, to imagine, to draw a word picture, the ability to rise above your emotions or situation, the ability to see beyond things, the ability to be released. Writing gives me many gifts as well as a way to connect with others and people who may never meet you but you have connected through the reading of a piece of writing you wrote. Writing gives me gifts of joy and peace.
