Why Is Writing Though?
What’s your relationship with writing?
Are you in a difficult relationship with writing? If so, you’re likely reading the right article. You know: when it comes to troubles, it’s about relationships.
Let’s get started!
How your relationship with writing looks like
By writing, I mean any kind of writing, even a shopping list. Writing is every time we entrust our thoughts to a sign.
That’s important to say and avoid the misunderstanding that writing is only something like what Shakespeare wrote. What I’m exploring here is your will of writing, no matter the content.
Your will could go through three looping phases.
First: you commit to writing down your thoughts. You acknowledge that this is the only way to deeply understand what you think.
Second: it often seems like you don’t have enough time to stop going on and jot down your thoughts.
Third: when you skip writing your thoughts, you feel you have thrown away an opportunity. Then you commit again and re-start the loop.
Are you familiar with that loop?
Break the loop down
I empathize with people who state: “I’m not able to write, it takes so much time!”
Writing is tiresome, even for professional writers, but that’s not the point: the point is that writing is a muscle that must be continuously trained, otherwise it atrophies.
The continuous exercise is what breaks the loop down! And the reason why writing is tough.
That’s the relationship that writing demands: being always together, day by day.
Conclusion
Being in a relationship with writing is like investing money every single day, meaning that you give up some money now to get more in the future.
Writing requires vision and effort.
Give up some spare time today, focus on writing instead: your relationship with writing will benefit, becoming no longer just tough, but happy too.
