Why Writing Matters to Me and Why it should to you too?
Will I discover who I am?
I have always wanted to know exactly how my minds works? We all know that the environment we inhabit, our life experiences and all that we do in life, affects our minds, our perspectives and ultimately, what we write as human beings.
At the age of seventeen, I started my walk on the Writer’s Way, with my first love poem. In a matter of months, I had written and self-published a collection of seventy-five poems. It was easy for me to do this as I was heavily influenced by my father, who was a writer. I have also taken to writing and consider it to be my genetic inheritance, to write a piece every day.
It was only years later that I realized that my quest to find exactly how my mind worked, had already begun. This was due to the journey I had embarked on a few decades ago. I am now in a position to say, that I know how my mind works, for me as a writer. How can I say this today? I write and have written a lot of stories, poems, articles and self-published many books, over a period of years. I have discovered who I am as a writer and you can too.
I am not an expert on my mind and the creative processes that work for me. However, I am now able to create a literary piece, knowing to a certain degree where I am taking my idea or story. I can create an interesting piece of writing with just a small idea. I can develop a simple idea into a more complex one, as well as deconstruct a complex one into simpler pieces.
This ability for me to understand myself, my imagination and creative process as a writer, did not come to me, as if by magic, but by enjoying what I do and by writing a literary piece every day. The instant that writing feels like a chore and something that I must do, I simply stop and relax, taking a break from writing. I only return to writing and creating as soon as I feel passionate about a story idea and I must develop it into a story for readers to enjoy. Writing matters to me, as it helps me to understand myself, my life and my place in the world, and it can do the same for you too.
