riley's writing

June 2019. Progress

What a month it’s been so far, and we’re only 17 days in. I haven’t had time to discuss this yet, but on June 1st I finally came out to my mother and my brother, after years of being too afraid to do it. I was petrified but I had wonderful people to support me (full disclosure: it went well, they both knew already, I cried a lot and my brother hugged me a lot, my mother was fineee).

To Claire, Charlyn, Mabel, thank you for calming me down and giving me the love and support I needed. I am so happy I can call you my friends.

To Lora, thank you for your bravery and your strength, I was planning on coming out “soon”, but it’s you coming out to your grandmother that finally made me go “okay this is it, I have to do it now”. You are a force of nature, you wonderful goat lady.

To the wlw group chat , thank you for always being so kind and loving and generally insane, i cherish our chat so much.

I have so much love for these wonderful people I met. You guys make me a better person, you help me go forward in life, you make me feel happier. Until the creation of the group chat, I’d never truly realised how important it would be to have more wlws in my life, but it makes such a huge difference. I’m grateful for you, your weirdness, your support and your love. Stay golden, be gay, don’t do crime.

I love you guys ❤️

i’m really proud of @catsandtenderness, @causeimavirgo and @blackacre13 - they’ve all come out to various family members this month. it’s a brave, scary thing to do, and arguably one of the toughest tasks to navigate as a wlw. 

but, you know, i’m proud of everyone in the wlw chat. we’re all from different walks of life. we have different struggles, environments, politics to deal with… but we’re also so incredibly similar. i feel blessed to be part of something like this and to call all of you my friends. it’s helped me in ways i struggle to articulate and it’s given me such a strong sense of pride. 

me: its a surprise ;) 

Show don’t tell? Ignore.

Basic grammar and punctuation? Unnecessary. 

Physical descriptions of characters? Don’t need to bother. 

Solid plot? That’s for later. 

The words don’t come as fast when you’re thinking of the best way to put them together. It doesn’t have to be pretty, or much more than inconsistent nonsense.  The point is to have it exist.