The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard

The trick to honing your true voice as a writer

Niki Marinis
3 min readJul 20, 2019
Katie Dutch — used with permission

I have more to write about than I ever realized and I only noticed it once I picked my pen back up. I haven’t written by hand in so long and I don’t know why. Avoiding myself. Why?

Because confronting your flaws and actively working to change your reactions and thought patterns is uncomfortable and exhausting!

Back to scrolling social media and binging true crime documentaries!

It’s like I have a victim mentality and am waiting to be saved.

Hmmm. My therapist will appreciate that breakthrough.

Honestly, now that I have a boyfriend I don’t write as much. The bulk of my scribblings have always been my lamentations over men, boys, dating and assorted romantic anguish.

Happiness killed my production volume and my comedy. Rude.

Oh, but I have so much more to process than my love life! Like everything else in my life that is the root cause of the problems I’ve had in my love life.

Go figure.

I get sparks of ideas for pieces, as if this is what I should be doing with my life, but then don’t do anything about them. Like I’m waiting for someone…

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Niki Marinis

Weird Girl, thrift store owl collector, heartbreaker, lush, aspiring adult. IG: DocJohnnyFever nikimarinis@gmail.com https://nikimarinis.medium.com/subscribe