Go Ahead And Admit It. You ARE A Writer!
As I was composing my thoughts for yesterday’s post here, a million other thoughts were trying to beat down the locked door to my mental office. This isn’t really abnormal for me because I have a tough time with focus.
One of those thoughts kept screaming at me. So, today I will address it here and try to get it in at the Writing class at Professional Squids since it is my next planned lesson there anyway.
We are all writers.
Most of us deny that fact, but it is true. We all have a need to scrawl our thoughts, but we often think that there is no point if no one else wants to read them.
That’s the point. As soon as we can understand that we aren’t writing for anyone else but ourselves, the sooner we will realize that we are writers.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
~ Anne Lindbergh
The secret to writing is not to create a story, but to report the ride. Broadcast our experiences, and then read them. It gives is proof that we are alive and more than just a life form that scurries about for seventy plus years.
Writing allows us to see our own depths.
So, the next time you think you are not a writer, sit down and write about why you think you are not. I bet you’ll find that you are pleased with what you wrote.
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Alex You really hit it right on for me with this blog. I always think I am not a good writer, I’m just a photographer who needs to add a few words to explain her photography. But you are right we are writers. Crabbybeach is really getting me to understand better…trying to put my thoughts down in writing. The side benefit is that it really gets me to thinking and now when I’m taking a photograph…I’m also thinking what I could write about it. It makes me see things different…even the Geese on the pond seems to be speaking to me.
This post “nails” the key concept that we all seek to incorporate into our psyches as writers. It defines, in my opinion, why we can’t wait to read what Alex and others who have grasped that concept write. The closer we all get to shedding our doubts and insecurities about what other people think and to realizing that we can’t be as real or write as passionately about a topic if it is written for someone else… then the closer we are to becoming an interesting writer. We have to write what we are driven to write about for ourselves first… and recognize and accept that if it is intense and real… everyone is not going to like it or find it interesting… but those that do like it are going to like it a lot! Why are they going to like it? … because it contains what everyone craves both consciously and subconsciously… passion! That’s what they are searching for…and what you are looking for…Your passion! It’s not selfish or tacky… It’s just the way it is…You can’t be as passionate writing for someone else’s and mind…as you can be writing for your own! I just visited a lens that shouts out the dawning of this empowering idea… and like the Spinx rising from the ashes…marks the growth of a joyful renaissance for one writer. She just received LOTD for her lens on David McCallum, but I’d hand her the LOTD for this inspiring work: How Granny Gets Her Groove Back- http://www.squidoo.com/motivation_hints.
Once again Alex you’ve nailed it. I just completed a book that sort of teaches the same thing. We actually should be writing for ourselves to get those ideas crammed in our minds out. If others like it, that is fantastic. The point is did we like it? Sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we can look at what we have written and know it is crap. But we got it out and we can always go back and improve on it on another day.
We are writers. Some are storytellers, some are poets, some are informative, some are funny; but the common thread is that we are all writers.