#WritingPrompt: Writing as documentation

Memories Encased

a poem and a writing challenge

While writing may be validating and that’s the biggest driving factor for why I may choose to write,

I sometimes wonder if writing secondarily serves the purpose of documenting, especially for moments that seem like they never pass, and tragedies that feel ever-encompassing.

By looking back and seeing how much I’ve moved on from those strong feelings and negative hopes, I can see how resilient I was and still can be by reminding myself that I’ve survived every step until now.

#WritingPrompt: Writing as documentation

Inviting Carolyn Hastings | Suman Sandhu | Dandy Lioness 🌻 | Melissa Speed | Tej | Ravyne Hawke | janny’s heart| Kathy Jacobs | Meenal Gupta| Susan Alison | if you’re up to it and anyone else interested to smash that writer’s block, join in on this tiny challenge and write a response, wherever it takes you! It can be a tiny poem, a shortform piece or an essay — whatever comes into that brain noodle!

Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and I find this strongest with one of the earliest poems I’ve written here: Snowflakes. This poem was written during my high school years, over ten years ago. Since then, other poems I’ve written have been lost to time. This one stood the test of time because I loved it so much I kept it, rewrote it, republished it in so many places. And perhaps that’s what time does. I may write frequently in quantity at the loss of externally defined “quality”, but time highlights to me which pieces may survive not based on some arbitrary standard, but rather how much I’ve grown from it or how much something I felt at one singular time still rings true. 📚📚 PS, I published a book of tiny poems!

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^ by Barb Dalton