Writing taps into the subconscious, allowing new thoughts to emerge and break patterns. Daily writing can dramatically improve mental health by helping individuals work on their faults and experience change. Characters in stories also reflect this, creating a world where people evolve and break free from repeating patterns, providing a cathartic experience.
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The Sweet Spot of Your Life
The author expresses feeling they've passed their life's "sweet spot," a term inspired by a song by Antje Duvekot. They mourn their declining productivity as an author and diminishing morality at work and family life. Despite their melancholy, they hope for meaningful endeavors in the future.
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Finding Places to Submit Your Work
The author, a successful writer with many published works, offers advice on publishing. Recommended tools include Submission Grinder, a free service that lists potential publishing opportunities, and Submittable, a platform popular with publishers, which simplifies the submission process and includes a tracking feature. Other resources include regular email updates from a specific website, Trish Hopkinson's website for poets, and Facebook groups.
What is the Most Important Advice?
I work with young people. I try to strive to encapsulate the most important things to know about having an important life. I am still looking for the right words, but this is what I believe- 90% of our brain processes (thinking) is on the subconscious level. Our brains take our experiences and decides how … Continue reading What is the Most Important Advice?
Speak Through Poetry
How often do you not feel heard? You are saying something you think is important, but the other person is just waiting for you to finish, so they can speak. Even worse, they don't wait. I believe this has become an epidemic, and perhaps it is because of the epidemic. We need to communicate and … Continue reading Speak Through Poetry
Take a Chance with Poetry
Poetry is cathartic. We are only as sick as our secrets. So we need to be heard. Even if we write a poem down and are not ready to share it yet, we get the benefit of speaking out.
Is This a Metaphor
At my job, I get ice from the icemaker in the kitchen and carry it to the freezer in the breakroom. I actually load up the fruit drawer because it is never used. No matter the temperature, when I go later to use the ice, it has all frozen together. So what would you do? … Continue reading Is This a Metaphor
Writing Is One of the Few Ways to Change
Think of the saying, Trauma gets buried deep. Once down there hidden, it causes more problems, not less. So, we must find ways to uncover it and let it go.
Don’t Take Me as I am
In reality, people cannot just act the way they want to act and have a relationship with other people. Because we are flawed. We have to work to understand and then care for the other person.
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we are in danger of having an ugly life. In passing an ugly life to our children.
Thomas Cannon Author 