so let’s talk about little 11-16 year old me. I went back in my old email right? my old old one named lollystalk or whatever. and looked back at all my old writing that i use to send myself from my email.
like i was old school as hell cause i’m looking at my email and i use to have full on conversations with people via email. (like that was so cute. what happened to that. waiting in anticipation for an email response. can we bring that cuteness back?!) and i found old writing. old text messages. old notes. old KIK things. ah!
made me think about old school crushes. the stupid shit i use to say when i was a little teen thing. it’s so embarrassing but it’s like damn.... memories ya know? i was embarrassing i can’t lie. like if the old uterika was my little sister i would have been so embarrassed. but cause i know it’s me it’s like... doubled. ah.
anyways my writing. lmao some of it was absolute trash. but it makes me remember just how long i’ve been doing it. and mind you i got a laptop at 11. so now i can’t help but think of all the writing i use to WRITTEN.
like i use to love to make stories. and they’re embarrassing... and silly... and high school (or what i thought highschool was) ... and some of them are even problematic but it was MINE you know?
& that... just. nothing has made me smile and want to never stop writing more than that. And I got back into it but all I could think was hey! You’re not good. Or you can do better. Or there’s so many people doing better. I look at tv shows I love and books and other people’s writing and i’m like.... you SUCK. But then I remembered how long I use to write and I’m like ... no bro.
You’re getting better. You’re strengthening your skill. You’re doing that thing your heart LIVES to do. I literally say this all the time... but my head ... works in prose. I can’t experience anything without distantly thinking of it dialogue and descriptive figurative writing. I was made to write. And that’s kinda fucking awesome to me.
Anyways might post some really cringy old writing on my writerblr who knows. 😭