Dear Fellow,
How do you do?
It is well over here. Wonder is still found here. I hope you see wonder at your end too.
I’ve got essays and reviews filed for the remaining four Saturdays (or so) to show up in your inbox for this year.
I am looking for better ways of engaging with you in the coming year and beyond.
Your suggestions will be of help to me, significantly.
Let me know how this newsletter serves you and what you will expect subsequently.
Meanwhile, I want to share with you something valuable.
I want to share with you a writing hack.
Before that, my reasons for sharing this with you.
I believe everyone has something to write down.
We have experiences, treasured memories, and moments we cannot and should not forget.
They count for so much in our becoming and that of our descendants.
Those events in life that cameras cannot capture, but our brains and minds.
When such moments need preservation outside of ourselves.
For the good of those we love.
For the good of everyone who finds them and reads them.
It must be written.
Though writing is part of the becoming process of man, not all men write.
Not all who have learned to write do it as a part of their lives.
The reasons range from the assumptions that:
It is for a select few.
To total refusal to attempt.
I think everyone should write.
To the basic, writing is also an instrument of blessing.
In line with this thought—writing is an instrument of blessing and kindness—I share with you a hack that helps me through the dreaded writing moments.
The hack:
Yes! Scribble away!
Forget perfection yet.
Forget accurate spellings yet.
Just scribble until the bleeding stops.
File it away.
If it begs to be burnt, send it to me untouched.
If it sees the light of day, brutally edit.
But do not rely on what you think is good or not.
It is a failure to back off because you don't have the first line.
Just scribble away.
Scribble until the bleeding stops, until the timer beeps stop!
Just scribble!
©Tongjal, W. N. 2022
Write away, right away. Scribble away! You sometimes understand your thoughts better when you do. It can be the only way you find beautiful treasures in your thoughts. Just write away! Write today.
Your LetterMan,
Tongjal, W. N.