Why Unscripted?

The best things I’ve created rarely came from following a script. They came from detours, experiments, and paying attention to the subtle internal urges to explore something that might otherwise be dismissed or labeled as silly.

When I chose the name Unscripted, it wasn’t just about writing freely…though that matters too. It’s about honoring movement and art as living practices, shaped more by curiosity than control. I don’t want this to be a place of polished answers or step-by-step guides. Instead, it’s about sharing the process: the sketches, the stillness, the practices, and the messy middle of figuring out what feels aligned and true for me, rather than outsourcing that guidance to external systems that don’t always have my best interests in mind.

Two of the core themes I’ll be exploring here are movement and creativity.

Movement, for me, is no longer about exercise. It used to be. But over time, I’ve returned to the philosophy I first discovered as a dance student in my late teens and early twenties: movement is about connection with my body, noticing its rhythms, and learning what it’s asking for. Some days that looks like energy and exertion. Other days, it’s slowing down, breathing deeply, or resting altogether.

Art works much the same way. It’s not only about the finished product. It’s about the drafts, the fragments, the moments that don’t make it onto a gallery wall or into a stage performance, but matter just as much.

This journal will be a space for all of that: the musings, fragments, reflections, and discoveries along the way. My hope is that these entries feels like an open journal and sketchbook, where presence matters more than perfection, and where process means just as much as the finished product.