31 days of prose: a writing experiment
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Upon stretching and reaching for my slippers, I was greeted by the gentle pat pat pat of rain against our freshly re-done roof.
When I was young, I would write stories, and while I don’t remember writing these stories, I still like to hear about little me, mashing together letters and words, blissfully unaware of grammar or perfection or comparison or anything else that would stop her from feeling like she couldn’t or shouldn’t write. Couldn’t or shouldn’t share what she had just created.
By the time I had reached highschool, I had begun to realize that the school system didn’t work well for me, or rather, didn’t work well with how I learned best. But because I was only 16-years-old and really just trying to pass all of my classes, I didn’t fixate on it as I did years later, when college didn’t work out and I was left feeling unsure of where to place myself, of what to do.
Now when set out to learn something new or to write a personal essay or to create a piece of pottery, I feel more at ease, more comfortable with the way’s in which I take it all in — and not because everything all of a sudden makes perfect sense, but because I’ve slowly begun to relearn how I need to learn, write how I want to write, and create how I wish to create.
When it comes to writing, I think of it as an open invitation: something to come back to, to try again, to have it all feel a bit clunky and scratchy and annoying until it doesn’t and then you keep going and sometimes hard things happen and you stop but you always start again because writing seems to be the only thing that consistently makes sense when everything else is squiggly and slightly off kilter.
So, this is me starting again. Starting again for what feels like the millionth time since little me enthusiastically pieced together stories and characters with names from what she had learned from life so far.
A way to make something real, something tangible from the imaginary, and to then, with the crayons still a mess on the kitchen table, to offer her make-shift book to anyone that would like to to read it.
Welcome to October’s writing experiment, where I’m beginning to reshape my relationship to writing by writing daily (and by sharing before I have a chance to change my mind).
The basics: 31 days of prose inside of A Home for Creating, and two emails, one at the beginning (like this one) and one at the end (similar to this one, just my thoughts on concluding not beginning).
An experiment inside of an experiment: I’m writing this newsletter on the same day that I’ll be sending it. Terrifying! Thrilling! Why not!?
To ensure that I don’t overcomplicate, here are the gentle parameters I have set for myself: spend no more than 20-minutes on this daily, write in pen, edit very minimally (if at all), take a photo of the original copy, type it out, and share — see the written version of today’s entry just below.
10/1/25
I’m in a raincoat holding my camera up, pressing my eye against the viewfinder. It’s cold and the rain is coming down sideways and the crow sways on the wire and the cars rumble on by; there’s nothing particularly special about this moment, only that it isn’t real, or maybe it was or will be, but right now it’s only a passing image of something I might do, might have done.
— prose, day one: a crow on a wire (or maybe something else, I don’t know)
Because A Home for Creating has quickly become one of my favorite digital spaces to spend time in, I decided that that’s where I’d like to host this experiment, and share these daily prose.
If at all curious, you can join here.
As always, thank you so much for being here, I’m hugely grateful.
Talk soon,
Chloe
PS. as a form of motivation, I’m thinking of turning this soon-to-be mini collection of writing into a physical zine, thoughts?
e: hello@chloealmeda.com
w: chloealmeda.com
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Some of my other creative experiments include —
making pottery
re-stocking the library
& spending time in a home for creating, a private community space hosted on Notion and designed to better support how you choose to create, learn, experiment, share, and be inspired
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