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Splash No. 194 - Writing Lovingly

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I once again find myself questioning the purpose of my work. I’ve spent my whole life doubting myself, and Splash has felt this ire as well. In my early days, Splash was simply a creative project for the sake of creating. It was a way for me to get my reps in, getting used to putting words down on the page, to get them in front of the eyes of others, regardless of the quality of the work and what was being said. And sometimes it’s still something like that, when I rack my brain for a topic and being writing, only to realize I’ve told that story before. Yet, other times it becomes more: a record of a time or a feeling, a set of words for someone in particular disguised as a mass dispatch. In the latest iteration of her Grief Bacon newsletter, Helena Fitzgerald recounts a decade-long email exchange with her friend Vicky, “But I wrote Vicki long emails about it and she wrote emails back and in the emails even the worst things were beautiful. The record mattered more than what it recorde

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