Prompt: write a letter to your future-self. Dear future-self, I hope 2022 is filled with surprises– the good kind. Your past-self, the one who is writing this letter, hates surprises. The unpredictable, the unknown, the disorganized… it’s all too much, but I hope by the time the year ends she learns how to live life …
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On A Stormy Day: Fictionalize Journal Entry
It is winter in Florida. My phone screen reads 11:47 a.m. After a long night, we are finally on the way to a secret destination. He said it is a surprise, his Christmas gift. The sky is full of clouds this morning, but the forecast claims it won’t rain today. It is one of those …
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The Perfect Gift-Guide For Your Writer (or Reader) Friends
I always struggle with what to get my friends and family. However, I have come across many items that I am like wow, this is the perfect gift. As someone who writes frequently and reads constantly, I will give you some of my best gift advice. A Journal. Whether your friends is a writer or …
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Starting Over: A Fictionalized Journal Entry
It was Saturday night: the day of my first second date after your departure. I played with the rings on my fingers as I waited for the clock to hit 8:45 p.m. My silver Pandora crown and my crystal ring couldn’t fill the void of a bare left-ring-finger. The rose-gold crown you bought me as …
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A Look Into My Poetry Journal
I have been writing poetry in a journal for years. I am currently on my fourth journal since I started writing by hand rather than on my laptop. Even though typing is faster and often easier than writing, I always thought there was something inspiring about the way the words stain the page. Today, you …
Books I Read This Summer
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe Rating: 4.5/5 As you may now by now, I am a huge historical fiction fan. I often read books about the French Resistance, but when I found this one, the title intrigued me. It is a beautiful narration of a girl who is a prisoner in Auschwitz and …
Lessons I Learned Through Heartbreak
Don’t ever let anyone define you as a person. This sounds like such an “easy” thing to remember yet when we are experiencing heartbreak, at least in my experience, we often allow the experience to change the way we view ourselves. It is easy to believe you are hard to love or not worth someone’s …
Love, Games, and You
There is a saying in my culture that translates to “good luck in games, back luck in love” and vice-versa, implying that those who have good luck in one department tend to have bad luck in the other. I was never one to believe in this kind of superstitions– but do you remember how I’d …
Unshared Poetry: “Unlearn You”
Like I said before, there are some poems that are meant to heal us (the writers). These are the kind of poems that may never leave my journal. Sometimes I write to help others through my own experiences but some other times I simply write to understand what I am feeling. Writing is my own …
Sharing Your Writing Online: Advice
I started sharing my writing on Instagram a couple of years ago, during 2019. Since then, I have tried different aesthetics and styles. Even though I am not an expert on this topic, I think I have had enough experience to share some of the helpful advice I was given or I learned throughout this …