All that shit you don't want people to know? Write it.
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There are a lot of topics people don't like to talk about, right? Whether it's stuff society has taught us to not talk about, like sex, or stuff that's just really personal, that we'd like to keep to ourselves. That's totally fine, but you shouldn't keep that shit bottled up.
A great writing and mental health exercise is to explore that by writing it.
For example, I've never liked to think about or talk about death. So I dove right in and decided to write a very short story about the processes of death in a way that was more palatable to me.
It was a great way to confront the big scary on my own terms, and while I don't feel completely exorcized of the anxiety, it's great to get some of it out.
You could even take this one step further and burn it or rip it to shreds as a physical and philosophical way of destroying all of it.
Go fucking nuts, write all kinds of bullshit! Have fun! It doesn't matter!
If it's awful (which it isn't, I swear), you can delete it if you find something good edit it! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or whatever, I don't know, I'm so tired.
Finish your manuscript before you make big decisions.
Life will kick you in the teeth, and while you're driving to the dentist, you'll be receiving a million emails saying “how's the book coming?” “Book almost done?” “Book eta?”
By the way, you're totally allowed to tell those people to stop.
You know those big bottles of soda you get for a party? There's about two and a half of those bad boys' worth of blood flowing through your body. (Five liters, to be exact)