5 Reasons Why You Should Write
Writing forces you to collect your thoughts, and stack them into a logical structure.
At 6:45am my heart thumps with excitement. As I walk out the door of the gym, ideas start fluttering through my head.
On my drive home I land on it: I’ll write about writing. The moment my espresso is finished, I open my laptop and get started.
5 Reasons Why You Should Write
If there were strict qualifications for giving guidance about writing, I probably wouldn’t qualify.
I didn’t major in creative writing. I don’t have a best seller. My work has never been published. I still have yet to finish a single work longer than an essay.
My only qualification to give advice about writing is that I’ve written privately for a long time now—journaling since 2018, but I’ve always had a pull towards writing publicly.
These are five reasons why you should write.
Writing forces you to collect your thoughts, and stack them into a logical structure.
If you’re looking for a way to improve your mental sharpness, writing is the way to do it.
Rather than loosely held beliefs, and the alphabet soup of all the media you consume, writing forces you to wrangle all these ideas, and put them down on paper.
If you don’t think you should write, that’s the reason why you should write.
If you’ve ever written anything you feel proud about, that is evidence that you should write.
The satisfaction you got at one point in your life from something you’ve written is a seed of potential that writing is your calling.
We need more writers who pour their heart into their work, bringing forth their own truths to light.
Writing is an act of discovery where you discover dormant truths within yourself.
When you sit down at the same time and place every day to write, you will soon discover that the right words pour out of your soul.
You won’t know where the inspiration came from, or how, but the right words leap out of you and onto the page.
Writing builds courage because when you open yourself up with your words, you’re exposed to the possibility of rejection.
The fear of writing never truly goes away, but it transforms as you get more capable of shrugging off self doubt.
As you write, exposing new truths within yourself, you become comfortable with the possibility of rejection.
Good writing stacks knowledge and advances humanity forward.
Nothing is written without inspiration from somewhere. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
The ideas that will drive humanity forward are waiting for somebody—maybe you—to articulate them in a way that makes sense.
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Peace out,
Grant ✌️