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when the writer gets into a slump, but then she picked up the pen again.

It’s been so long since my last post that I don’t even know how to start writing again, but I promise my skills are still intact. But if you know me personally or have been following my substack for some time (you’re a real one), you knowww I’ve been going through it in terms of knowing what to write just because I always have so much to say (and sometimes get a bit too passionate about it). I feel like taking breaks is necessary for my mind to understand myself again.

yes i said this. and i’ll say it again.

I think I mostly took a break because I was just tired. If you’ve read my past articles, they’re quite personal in that they’re always somehow related to my experience as a Black woman and our struggles. And listen, that alone can be so exhausting to speak about, which I’m sure most of you understand. At the end of the day, writing about pain and heavy topics will eventually take a toll on the writer (in my personal experience, at least). And, I also just enjoyed the time when I was writing just for the sake of writing and not to have anyone else read it.

Although I took my break from writing on here, I still rant and all of that, but that’s over on my youtube channel. It’s a bit more personal than this in that it’s more of a diary (but also not because it’s literally on the internet), so if you’d like to hear my voice as you do the dishes or something… there you go.

Anyways, long story short: my semester is over, and I have time to dedicate myself to my passions again, so expect some new articles in due time :)

- aliya xx

(cover art/painting is ‘interconnected’ by DeAnn Wiley)