Let It Flow (Even If It Leaks a Bit)

Welcome to Writerings — a collection of thoughts about writing, creativity, and why your brain sometimes makes a chicken noise when you try to start a blog post.

I’ve been writing for a long time. Not always well, and not always in a straight line. But I’ve learned something important along the way, and I thought I’d start here:

It’s a good idea to let creativity flow.
Even if it sloshes out the sides.
Even if it makes a mess.
Even if you find yourself writing a limerick about toast when you were meant to be explaining how RSS works.

The alternative is the blank page.
The polite, blinking, judging white void that sits there waiting for something proper. Something tidy. Something “good”.

But that’s not how most of us work.
The good stuff only shows up when you give it permission to be weird first.
When you stop writing what you should, and start writing what makes the kettle laugh.

Creativity doesn’t follow a neat path. It falls down hills. It trips over commas. It wears socks that don’t match and says, “Hey, that’s a poem.”

So in this section — Writerings — I’ll be sharing things I’ve discovered while trying to write, blog, and make sense of whatever my brain hands me each morning. Sometimes it’ll be useful. Sometimes it’ll rhyme. Occasionally it’ll be neither.

But it will always be honest.
(Except when it’s lying to get out of a spelling mistake.)

If you’re a writer, a scribbler, a blog-wobbler or a noticer of nonsense — I hope you find something here that reminds you: it’s OK to write with joy, with silliness, with malfunctioning metaphors and unfinished thoughts.

Let it flow.
Even if it leaks.
Especially then.