Hello friends!
I hope you are doing well and that your weekend looks amazing! Until next Friday, and so for this first week of October that is coming up, I have chosen the writer and poet Jessica Lovejoy for the new edition of the column on Scribe. She recently published Sit With Me and I Found You, two poems that talk about love, one of her favorite topics. Jessica is one of my most loved writers on Medium and I think I am not alone. I invite you to discover her publication in which she gathers some of her best poems: Café Con Leche.
Scribe's monthly letter will be published and sent this Sunday, and believe me, the publication has never been so lively! I don't like to talk about numbers, but I can still tell you that Scribe is approaching 60,000 views and 60,000 minutes of reading per month. This is quite exceptional for a publication of this size. And without getting ahead of myself, the publication should reach 5,000 subscribers by the end of this year! We'll meet on January 1st to have champagne?
I would not go so far as to say that writing has saved my life because I have never been wrong to the point of questioning my existence, but I can say that writing has changed my life. Writing came to me because I found in words a way to feel better. I tell everything or almost everything in this story: Why Do We Write?
And so, I invite you to read this article written by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Writing As Therapy: My Year of Teaching in the Locked Ward. As an author and psychologist, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen tells how she has worked with patients in a psychiatric hospital using writing to help them feel better and see a brighter future.
To write is to imagine something different from your daily existence. It can be a brilliant escape. A man can be locked in a small cell, yet free in his words. But writing isn’t only about escaping, it’s also about diving deeper within oneself. It’s about trying to understand the forces that shaped our lives and made us who we are.
— Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
I wish you all a very good weekend!
To Write Is...
“To write is to imagine something different from your daily existence.” I like that. As writers we have the opportunity to paint portraits of new worlds for people to dive into and immerse themselves in. Writing and books of all kinds are the greatest resource to your imagination! We can be somewhere completely different, someplace that only exists on paper and in our minds, and it is remarkable! I truly am inspired by the human mind’s capacity for creative thought. We can think up anything!