Do you Love to Write? This is Why You Should Write "For Fun" Whenever You Possibly Can..

"You write? Smh.. have fun going nowhere in life," says every person who has never followed their dreams once. Usually the ones who say stuff like the line above are the same ones who just got hired at the first 9-5 job they could get straight out of high school/college and never worked their way up to find the "sweet spot" for whatever hobby or activity it was that they found joy in. Maybe someone else told them that same line, so they just gave everything up and moved on to some basic, never-ending job that paid the bills simply because it was the only thing that helped paid the bills out in the real world.

Luckily, I was blessed to have grown up with a father that was obsessed with "writing for fun". Even if he never made an income from doing so, he still found time in his day to discover his own passions for writing.. and he had quite a bit of success in doing so. Don't get me wrong; my father wasn't the only parent who helped show me that one shouldn't follow their dreams. Although my father helped me follow my path for the passion I have when it comes to writing, my mother did help show me that you should never give up on what you love to do.

Anyways, this article isn't about my parents. It's about writing and finding that passion for doing so through writing anything you possibly could. For me, writing came pretty easy. Since I could remember, I've been writing out everything. As a child, I kept a diary. As a teenager, I wrote fanfiction. As a young adult, I began journaling (which is basically just a fancier term for keeping a diary). Now, I use Vocal as a way to just let the words escape my thoughts and be printed on the digital paper in front of us. I never let anything keep me from writing down my thoughts; even when I had terrible writer's block, I still let my mind wander and jot little notes down onto paper just to satisfy my passions for writing.

Why do you think I have an endless amount of fictional stories to write about?

Whenever I ran into any kind of Writer's Block for one story, I continued writing down plots for other forms of fictional stories so I can still continue to develop new ideas even if I couldn't complete old ones.

Using Vocal to "Escape"

I originally found this website back in 2017 when I was searching for places to write and, although my first stories published to this site was extremely cringe in my own opinion, I don't regret them. They do kind of show me just how I've changed when it comes to writing formats.

Four years ago, I first discovered this website and just wrote the most random of articles to try and see what the big deal was all about.

My first article, Growing Up With Social Anxiety, was just a little psyche article I wrote up to try and bring awareness to Social Anxiety in general (as much as an inexperienced writer who just graduated high school could).

Four years after this article went up (about a month from today's date), I rewrote my first article to try and update it with a more experienced writing format/technique, The Real Truth Behind Growing Up With Social Anxiety. I did this in an attempt to try and better the awareness brought towards the topic of Social Anxiety by making it feel more "professional" than the first article I had written on the topic.

After being inactive for four years, I finally made my comeback to this website. I actually forgot all about Vocal's existence until a friend of my mom's was bringing my attention towards different ways a writer could write and still make money. It wasn't until I tried to create a new account that this account popped up.. and that was that. I was suddenly hooked. My "comeback article" was just something I had written up for the Summer Fictional Series that Vocal had going on in the challenges at the time; it was just something I wrote to bring awareness towards not drinking and driving while still keeping in the boundaries of the fictional story topic.

I love using Vocal because this is pretty much just a kind of blog I can use to spit out my most inner thoughts. As long as you hit the word count quota on the things you publish, you can pretty much write about anything.

I've written a huge range of variety on here from bringing awareness around my disabilities, to writing stories or articles based around my own personal traumas, to even fictional short stories I either wrote onto a google docs in the past or just sit down and write out randomly at 3am. I've even started writing out a multi-chapter "novel" onto Vocal to help push out my passion for writing even more.

That's why I love Vocal; you can write just about anything and maybe, just maybe, it'll gain some attention from other readers on the site.

So, you like to write? Just do it. Don't let anything, or anyone, come between doing the thing you love. This is your life. The way you live it is only up to you. You can even start off writing small things like a diary/journal about your day, or maybe even just a shopping list or organizational list, and work your way up to little articles or stories. That's the great thing about writing; the possibilities for what to do with it are endless.

So, don't be shy..