How much of your real life/ self you share in your writing?

A little of both, truth and stuff I make up. That’s what I share. Writing is my passion. I overthink. Writing is a way to distract myself from overthinking on my personal life stress. I will say that my early writing was angry feelings that I wanted to get out of my mind. I would write a letter to someone that I had anger towards then later I would throw my writing away. I’ve tried to write a book that had fictional characters of people I made up. I have the first chapter finished. That’s it of a whole novel, Ha! I’ve written long Facebook posts on an old timeline that has now been deleted. In fact, my love for writing began on Facebook. I would say that writing online began with my love for social media. To be fair, I love penmanship. My whole life has been about words and letters and writing them. There was a time when writing (penmanship) was difficult for me after my brain injury. After several attempts to return to how things were, I mean years of trying (1992-2004), I found social media. Social media began my love for writing on a keyboard. What started out as one finger pecking at the keyboard has turned into typing at a pretty decent speed. A skill I learned in high school typing class. For someone who hasn’t had a brain injury it’s hard to explain. To someone who has had a brain injury, they would know exactly what I am talking about. It’s like taking a person who is a certain age back to the time they were learning as a baby. A brain injured person has to learn everything over again. So, if you are an adult before your brain injury, you would have baby learning skills after your brain injury. The thing is you are an adult now. You have a brain that will know how to do things. But you have a body that doesn’t know how to do things.

Back to my love for writing and the question of my writing being my real life/self. My writing is some of both real and made-up stuff these days. I am finding my recent writing is more about myself. Self-expression helps with my mental state. At my age it’s either the brain injury, perimenopause, mental health, physical or emotional strength. No matter how I feel, I am certain of one thing. I have found my place when I am writing with you guys🥰.

looking ahead to many more posts spent with you.

Until Next Time,

Heidi💜