Anna writing on laptop by train window

Journal

Write Like It Left a Scar

When I stopped reading articles from influencers and started reading from writers, I realized true writing is RAW.

I realized writing asks you to be bold. Blunt. Vulnerable.

Not polished. Not perfect.

Some of the best articles I've read feel like they were written with a cigarette in hand, a map on the table, or a camera nearby.

They have grit.

Realizing that most writers weren't sharing how something "made them feel" but the scars the experience left them with.

I think I still write like a little girl sometimes, letting my words flutter across the page.. sounding cheesy, maybe too soft, but I think I like this..

Letting my inner child meet the woman I am today.

Letting the grit develop.

I have a journal on my table instead of a map, a flat white instead of a cigarette, but for damn sure, I still have a camera sitting next to me.