Whether it’s creative non-fiction or dragons and
wizards from a secret abyss, writing takes you on a journey.
In writing you are transformed to a completely
different world. Your environment quiets and slows to a drudging nonexistence,
your cellphone is obsolete, and people slurping lattes nearby become an
entertaining white noise of which is easily filtered. You’re alone with your
characters and creating something that will captivate the imagination. It
doesn’t get much better than that.
Ideas and beliefs are put into perspective and
challenged. You are expected to know your content and command it like none
other; other’s look to you as the expert on the subject. You have become the
teacher while your readers are the students.
These highlights are well and fun; however, it is
crucial to remember: to be good we must want to want. We must have an urge to
soak up information and knowledge in all forms. Humility and a sense of
humbleness are required because you will have to request to be taught. Writing
isn’t entirely fun and games. It takes a determined mind, and a perseverance
that will drive you batty. Yet, please remember, once accomplished, an immense
feeling of endorphins and gratitude washes through you. And your nirvana has
been reached while you lie on a cloud nine.
To write and to write well levels your skill with
the greats. Your name is compared with the best of the best. Hemingway will
offer a review of your story and perhaps scoff, but he at least knows you
exist.
Writing challenges and torments; it creates and
destroys; it opens and closes the mind to an idea. Writing, changes and moves
the world.
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