Some of
you, like me, may suffer from hearing voices. Maybe that makes me a crazy
person, maybe not. I don’t really care. My voice tells me all kinds of things,
and sometimes talks more than a teenage girl with a cell phone. I don’t know
about you, but I have trouble getting them to shut up.
When
this happens, I get out my writing journal. I use long hand, as opposed to
digital, because it really gives me the opportunity to slow down my brain and
get it out one word at a time. Plus I
can scribble and doodle and whatever else to really get what’s stuck there out.
Usually
when I get all of whatever is stuck in there out on the paper, I get more ideas
to expand on it. This is also how I get new ideas for stories. In theory, it’s
kind of like bubble mapping, but no bubbles, just scribbles of unhindered
thought processes. I feel like the bubbles inhibit my demons, and inner
sorceries. I will get the tiniest seed of an idea, sometimes just one word, and
then I will just write whatever pops into my head. Sometimes it’s crap. Sometimes it helps my current story. Sometimes
it develops magically into a whole new story, and sometimes it stays this tiny
nugget that I store away for another time.
This is
also how I deal with depression. As someone who has a haunting past, I tend to
feel I need to analyze every aspect of my life over and over again. I call
these my little demon voices. If I keep the
demons in my head, it gets me down. If I write it all out, it first helps me to
work through whatever the issue is, and then it helps me to be able to set it
aside. Now sometimes new little fragments of those demons pop up. I then start
a new piece of writing that gets that out of my head.
It’s a
magical process. I hope you get as much from it as I do.
