Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor

It will feel different. You. The moment you arrive here, practicing you, one feet conscious about the other, every air accountable to you. It will feel different but know it’s you, all you, this master life you keep writing your way. Happy 5th anniversary, this blog, this essence of me.

I am sitting in a room packed full of people that look like me, writing this note just for one or two readers or whomever wants to know how one writes for 5 years. Truth is, I never intended to write this way. Just started out of frustration with the pandemic and work and being a teacher to three children while nursing a two month old and yes teaching a course with no maternity leave from my old place. I get wary of the place of the public’s health because those who often direct those spaces are the worst to their own kind.

I prefer a space where we are all dreamers. Some will join you and yes pretend to dream with you and so let them and dream until they reach their limit and then find new dreamers. We have been on a journey dreaming out loud here for the kind of world we want, the kind of writing too. Though it may seem meaningless or simple, know though that every single time I write her, I dream up new impossible systems made possible because I made the audacious task to write every day. So far in 2025, I have had my longest streak with writing, one that has let me dream out loud my wildest dream. It will all feel different once you hit your 5th year and yes the dreams will take you to spaces you never intended to go. My ask is that you go and dream and write as if you world depended on it. It does.