The Day is Over, Time to Let Go

“Starting each day new”

Some days we wake up exhausted and maybe a little dehydrated but at the end of the day we get to let it all go. We got to let tomorrow be a new day filled with new beautiful things to appreciate.

When I was reading 6 different books at the library the other day, I was in my happiest place. I had nonfiction, new fiction, and classic fiction only inches away from me all at one time. There’s not much else that can light my fire the same way a library can.

However today I woke up exhausted. I didn’t want to do much of anything. That doesn’t take away from how amazing I felt the other morning at the library. And the library trip didn’t take away from me waking up exhausted today.

What if we allowed ourselves to let go of our bad days so we could wake up stepping into something new and filled with possibilities?

Thank for reading. 😁

Full Moon Confessions

“A poem”

Swollen with all the words

I’ve clinched between my teeth.

Whispers dripped out

as I pounded the part of my brain

that made me see the world different.

My belly stuffed to the brim with dreams

that fill the all spaces of those who left me

to rot away except

I came back to life the same way

the moon always returns from complete

darkness.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

Writing Environment

“Our Writing Spaces Matter”

“It’s nice to be able to put yourself in an environment where you can completely accept all the unconscious stuff that comes to you from your inner workings of your mind.” -Bob Dylan

This is something I have been thinking about for a long time. For me there’s a difference between the time I actually write and the time I’m absorbing all these different ideas to make it into something new. The second one doesn’t ask me to put it into words. It’s just thoughts mulling around in my head growing into new perceptions and ideas.

There’s a million other things to do but the most important thing we do in this life is to find ways to play. We gain more from playing than people are willing to admit. We aren’t supposed to outgrow the things that get our minds moving. Play is like oil. It makes the gears run smoothly.

My first novel started out as play and often I go too serious. I had to back up and remember why I started writing it in the first place. Don’t forget how much fun you had writing in a way that lit up your world. Now that I’m writing this, I realize how easy it is to forget how much fun I used to have.

If this is anything, it’s a reminder that this is supposed to be fun! Lighten up. Find your inner child and coax him out with some play! That’s where your creativity lives.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

Thank for reading. 😁

Finish the Book

“Can anyone see the world exactly as you do?”

These books won’t write themselves. For a long time, I figured meh someone else can finish my work. Until I actually finished my first novel. I realized it was me and only me who could do the job seamlessly and with my life experience. This isn’t about being the greatest writer in the world. This is about expressing yourself through your lens and I guess the next question would be, can anyone see the world exactly as you do?

We are here doing our damnedest to thrive in uncertainty. No one knows when their number is up. No one knows when their loved one’s is either. We occupy this space between life and death, and no one really knows. We need water, earth’s filled with it. We need food, and coincidently or not the world’s filled with that too. And so, all this other fluff is all interesting little games we get to decide which ones we are interested in taking part in. The sad part is some people are born into terrible life experiences. Heartbreaking really. My only hope is that they find some sense of peace in this life.

If you have the privilege to choose the life that suits you, relish in it. Finish your novel. Make your life your art. Give back to those who are less fortunate and let your light shine so the world can see that it’s possible. Do it to remind yourself it’s possible. Do it for the little you who needed someone like you. Do it for the future that might just need that perfect reminder. The one you already have written.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

Illuminate the Unknown

“This article was inspired by a Georgia O’ Keeffe”

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” -Georgia O’Keeffe

I like this quote from Georgia O’Keeffe because it reminds me that we define our own success. If we as writers allow the world to define our success, then we allow the world to define who we are as artists. One thing I believe is that your life is your art so when you create your own idea of success, that’s you painting on your own canvas.

The second part of this quote is a little deeper. Making your unknown known is an undertaken. I often forget how much I didn’t know before I started writing. I do remember reading everything. I do remember how hard I was on myself. And to this day I know the complexities that come with deciding to be the kind of writer that’s called a novelist. I didn’t know when I started that’s what I wanted to be. I had to try it all. I didn’t know then, but I know now.

This can also be taken in a more psychological Jungian way. It reminds me of the idea of being your shadow to light. Diving into your subconscious and digging out all the little beliefs that molded you that were never true. Sometimes we hold onto beliefs because they kept us safe, some of it is social programing, and some of it is simply a misunderstanding. We as artists get to go headfirst with a flashlight and dig out all the juicy details of ourselves. It’s no easy task but the art is authentic because it’s a depiction of what makes you, you.