“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” — Virginia Woolf

The greatest romance you’ll ever know is that of a writer and her soul. Her love language is storytelling, a pen to paper, her true love’s kiss. In her grasp she glides it over delicate sheets of ivory and leads the sweetest slow dance. 

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page.” — Annie Proulx

Enticed by the shape of words, her soul is awakened. Like blank pages of a story unwritten, the writer’s soul begs to speak. It’s a fatal affair, her pen bleeds to ease this consuming passion.

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.” — Ernest Hemingway

To be stripped of her voice she wouldn’t mourn, but she vowed to never let a word be left unsaid. She’s devoted to the creation of poems and proses. When scintillating syntax seduces her there is no finer bliss.

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.” — Roald Dahl 

The writer fears she may never meet her muse. For the moment she simply falls in love with every verse etched in black. So when my words are all that is left of me, I hope you understand I’m just a girl who loves writing. 

“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood

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I believe even if we don’t understand it, there is meaning in everything. With this in mind, I was intrigued to learn more about the idea of synchronicity. This is the simultaneous occurrence of seemingly unrelated events with no feasible explanation. These “meaningful coincidences” are thought to be universal “signs”. If you often see repeating numbers or you think of something happening and it does, then you’ve experienced it. Such phenomenon happened to me recently. I was gifted a shirt with the saying “just a girl who loves writing” on it. Unbeknownst to my mother who gave me the shirt, over a year ago, I had randomly made up and typed out a very similar mantra. So, this Valentine’s Day I took this as a sign and got the inspiration to share my love for words, the art of written expression. I hope you love it!