Note to new readers: This post is part of my 30 Days of Writing Practice. I am allowing blocks of 10, 20 or 30 minutes of my day solely to putting my swirling thoughts on paper. No going back to edit which will only serve to stop the stream of consciousness. My writing buddy Chiqui and I (Wruddy for short), we call it writing from the heart. Please read my introduction for the full story.
Housekeeping:
#Wruddy – short for writing buddy.
#Wruddy Pages – the emails we write to each other every day.
30 Days of Writing – are the blog posts we ship or publish in our respective blog sites.
The contents of #Wruddy Pages and 30 Days are not the same. Meaning, we are writing two pages daily.
Visit my Wruddy Chiqui Pineda.
“30 Days of Writing” is the product of two women writing it all out. So today, I just want to celebrate a friendship that started with Instagram. A friendship so unique and magical that it is bound to last a lifetime. My fingers are crossed.
Natalie Goldberg’s “Writing Down the Bones’ served as the beacon that guided the WruddyShip in this writing adventure. The book launched the buddyship idea, guided us with pages of wisdom, and steered us through the maelstrom of emotions that naturally rocked our ship. Yes naturally. We had storms one day and glorious sunshiny blue skies the next. The first 35 days of our voyage was what I would call the adjustment phase. (We have been writing for 49 continuous days now.) We had to learn how to handle each other’s outpourings. Learn non-attachment and realise that the Wruddy Pages, albeit they appear like wailing walls, are merely practice writings! Therefore, we are not meant to “fix” one another. We learned to respect, appreciate and grow together. After all, we are not broken. Just perfectly imperfect.