Confessions of a Writer

When emotions come last, when the heart’s needs are denied and the world seems to fade to gray, then you know that you have to release what you feel, before it tears you apart. Emotional writing is the the rawest form of writing, and in some cases some of the best writing. It is natural writing, writing that doesn’t follow barriers or guidelines. It is writing from the soul, a piece of writhing emotion that has been plastered onto paper. 

It is writing for the sake of writing, simply to get what you feel across somehow, in order to release whatever energy you have inside you. You fade in and out of concentration, but the words keep flowing out of you like water from a tap, until you have a piece of writing that has seemingly flowed from you to the paper. 

This type of writing is so hard to explain, so hard to describe, because emotions are not logical, not something that should compute. But they do, and they are the driving force of humans as a race. If you can write with little effort, even if only at certain times, displaying feelings that you aren’t completely aware of, then you know that you are writing from the soul.

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