dear diary: the human experience

Mimi Nguyen, an English and Psychology major at the University of Maryland, College Park, is a creative writer who immersed herself into the practice as a means for self-expression. Writing became a way to help her identify and make sense of her emotions, which she noticed people around her also struggled with.

Mimi’s poetry explores the human experience through an introspective and reflective lens, asking those who consume her work to do the same in their lives. The small things in life or the big moments in life, are to be celebrated and reflected upon. Identity, our relationships and friendships, heartbreak, nature walks, bodily sensations: the things that make up the human experience that we may overlook. Mimi invites people to find ways to implement writing into their lives to help them reflect, or work on mindfulness, or simply create art.

 

Stream of consciousness writing, outlining, killing your darlings, and word vomit, all of which are valid ways of writing, are practices implemented into her writing. These encourage free writing and not feeling confined by our perfectionism. This type of work encourages letting our thoughts pass without judgment, and reflecting upon the emotions that come with them through writing.