# Ever had this? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Chatters\ **Tags:** chat, discussion\ **Created:** [April 11, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/ever-had-this/16022 "2026-04-11T16:09:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LordOfTheRiver](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/lordoftheriver/32/63580_2.png) [@LordOfTheRiver](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/LordOfTheRiver)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/ever-had-this/16022/1 "2026-04-11T16:09:25Z")
Have you people even encountered a situation where, no matter how you try to describe something, it doesn’t feel accurate? Like, for example, you’re having a feeling but you can’t explain how it feels, no matter what words or language you use? How do you people overcome this? All tips welcome! Thanks 😊 ---
**Author:** ![NotARussianBot](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/notarussianbot/32/63102_2.png) [@NotARussianBot](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/NotARussianBot)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/ever-had-this/16022/2 "2026-04-11T16:13:31Z")
Usually I put in a placeholder word, such as ELEPHANT and sleep on it. But I have struggled with descriptions a lot-usually I focus on that while revising. ---
**Author:** ![LordOfTheRiver](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/lordoftheriver/32/63580_2.png) [@LordOfTheRiver](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/LordOfTheRiver)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/ever-had-this/16022/3 "2026-04-11T17:45:32Z")
Yeah, fair. I guess it happens mainly when I can’t (or am too scared to) put it into words, even though I know what the thought or feeling is? It’s not usually scenarios in books, I’m talking more about philosophical shit. ---
**Author:** ![NotARussianBot](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/notarussianbot/32/63102_2.png) [@NotARussianBot](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/NotARussianBot)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/ever-had-this/16022/4 "2026-04-11T18:18:50Z")
Do you journal on the side? It might help if you are able to express yourself through writing in a low-stakes environment that nobody else has to see. ---
**Author:** ![LordOfTheRiver](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/lordoftheriver/32/63580_2.png) [@LordOfTheRiver](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/LordOfTheRiver)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/ever-had-this/16022/5 "2026-04-12T18:32:58Z")
We do, sometimes. Although it’s more the fear of no one else being able to help us if we understand what we are experiencing. So maybe, it’s… something else. —Veronika ---
**Author:** ![J.L.O](https://forum.wackywriters.com/user_avatar/forum.wackywriters.com/j.l.o/32/36267_2.png) [@J.L.O](https://forum.wackywriters.com/u/J.L.O)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.wackywriters.com/t/ever-had-this/16022/6 "2026-04-12T18:58:06Z")
Oh, that’s normal, and I often don’t fight the unspeakable, too much. Southernized witticisms helps. The smell of death is a normal course of decay, but it shouldn’t come from cooking pork, but what I smelled when cooking while pregnant with my second child was living death, a funk so malevolent it should clear a building, but it was only for me. (And thus, I cannot get closer than this.) But it’s sufficient. What I write more about, that permeates my writing, is “The Great Empty” or “Loss”, the angles of which you cannot find yourself within a crowded room. That sense of losing belonging, not going back, needing a long-dead parent isn’t something that really distills to this paragraph, either. But what I have is the bare-bones shape, the relation that allows people to see their own emptiness in, things like that.