Isn't it true that we come up with our most meaningful words when we find our face in the dust?

Not necessarily although painful times can lead to growth.

I have sometimes written my most meaningful and moving and self-exposing pieces in the joy of a fabulous moment. My best love letter after a weekend with my love, celebrating a group of us getting something done and sharing in a proud moment.

Often depression can be exhausting, energy-draining and stifling. If you are writing for an audience, you’d be better waiting until the depression lifts.

If you are using journaling as therapy, that is a very different issue. Often, keeping a journal or diary can help you ride out a case of the blues, even though rereading it may not send you to find a publisher.

There is a quote that this question reminds me of paraphrased… Writing should be painful, it should take something out of you.

But I agree with the consensus though I have written a few gems whilst depressed most of it was self pity, whining, confusion and incohorent thought.

But they still are worth writing if that is your way of processing and coping.

Nothing I ever wrote when I was feeling miserable was worth squat. So, no. I don’t agree with you. When I’m feeling up and expansive, I do pretty well. When I was feeling very down, I remember writing something about a rose in a cabbage patch being a weed and ordering roses that wandered into my cabbage patch to STAY OUT! Great, huh?
Maybe you feel you write better with your face in the dust, but do you still think the words are good when you are feeling better?

I come up with my most meaningful words when I have my face in a large glass of wine. Or at least I think so, until I’ve sobered up. That’s why bar-staff have to be really patient listeners. I have always found it much harder to write anything meaningful whilst depressed, but I do find that it helps, sometimes, just to vent.

I don’t know. When my face is in the dust, I sound like Samuel L. Jackson about to open a can of Whoop Ass.