With the risk of sounding like a part of an addict’s anonymous group, hi! My name is Ralitsa, and I love writing. So much so, that I got a whole degree so I can do this in three languages (English, Spanish, and Bulgarian)!
In 2023, I graduated with honours from my bachelor’s degree in applied linguistics and business communications. This degree wasn’t my first choice (I started with book publishing and did that for 2.5 years), but it made me fall in love with languages, communications, and creative expression in business.
Few things are more powerful than self-expression and the way we communicate with other people. Whether it’s in our personal life or through writing for businesses, human communication is at the core of everything, and languages are a big part of it.
Which brings me to why this site exists. Writing has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I used to write angsty poems, short stories, and essays as a teenager, both as an outlet for my feelings and as a way to be remembered. I never had the courage to publish any of my writing – besides my Tumblr blog that no one reads – so most of them only enjoyed the audience of my parents, best friends, and a few internet strangers. See evidence below:
Dramatic, I know.
Anyway, my professional path then led me to learn SEO content writing, content optimisation, copywriting, and proofreading. And while that may seem like the dream job for someone who loves writing, the harsh truth is that it’s quite the opposite.
Lost in metrics, clients, projects, optimisation, and keywords, I left my creativity behind. From a cathartic experience, writing transformed into an “optimised process” – something to duplicate and put on a conveyor belt, instead of something I feel and have the need to release.
This is my attempt at waking up my creativity. I’ll be trying out different prompts and challenging myself in different genres.
I’ll also share my struggles and insecurities, hopefully, being a voice for someone who feels lost and stuck in a rut.
My first idea for this blog was to share advice and maybe even offer coaching, and considering that it’s now almost a year old and I’ve done nothing of the sort, it’s safe to say it wasn’t the right call.
My biggest mistake was to keep my writing chained to success, money, and profitability, when these were the exact things that put me in this hole to begin with. If I want to find myself again, I can’t have any expectations: for me or for my writing.
If I want to find my voice again, I should just let it be as it is.