You Have More Reasons to Write Than You Know

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it until it begins to shine.” — Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, despite having her life fraught with different challenges, wrote more than a thousand poems. Her work is touching, emotional, and inspirational. She enriched her poems with her ideas, insights, and experiences by drawing inspirations from the events that occurred in her life to create pieces that resonate with so many folks.

Looking up to Dickinson as a source of inspiration has allowed many to not allow the endless challenges of life to truncate their writing journey.

If you’re willing and determined to allow your creativity to come to light and shine for you and others, you’d find out that each time you point your pen to the blank page, the ink will flow, and fill up the blank pages with different stories.

Sharing your stories with others frees up the mind and readies it to create new stories. It’s when your mind is free, that you’d be able to capture more unique ideas to write about and share. Like Maya Angelou rightly said, “there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

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Write to Inspire Others to Write Their Stories.

You owe it to other writers to write your stories. They’d appreciate and cherish your work because your pieces might be what they need to find their path and understand a better way to write their stories.

William Faulkner said it best when he talked about the importance of reading:

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” — William Faulkner

Writings from every writer are packed with vital fragments of ideas and insights that would help others in different ways to create stories. This is why the more you read, the more you have more to write about. And why one of the things that improve your writing is being a voracious reader.

Imagine if all these writers we enjoy their works never wrote. Imagine if they never shared their ideas and experiences back then. And you’re unable to picture through their pieces what the world look like 200 years ago when the earth was very green. And when the trees abound on our streets.

What would’ve inspired you to write? Which writings would’ve illuminated your writing journey and show you exactly where to start from?

Writing is a means by which writers share stories that’d outlive them. It’s how they spread and keep their presence in a world that they won’t always live in. And when they share their work, others would read, learn, and be motivated to write theirs.

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Write Because Your Pieces Can Resonate And Connect With so Many People.

Write because your story is capable of bringing people together. Your story has what it takes to bridge the divide and bring different people closer even for a moment. Readers can from your story, see themselves fleetingly dwelling in your world without being there with you. They can from your story create stories that would connect and resonate with you and others.

Words are like a chord that stretches far. Flexible, yet strong enough to crisscross many directions to bring many people together to have a memorable experience from reading the pieces of a unique human that has a lot of wonderful stories to tell.

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Be Lead by Love.

If love is your light, you shall never journey in darkness. Writers’ block may never exist because you’re not letting the world direct or dictate how you go about your writing. Your grip on your pen would be firm, but flexible to create many interesting stories that would touch your readers in various ways.

If you’re guided by love, you’d say what you want to say. Your message would pierce through the noise to meet folks that yearn for your story and show them the world they’ve never lived in. A world that might add meaning to their lives.

If you embrace the craft and put your talent to work like Emily Dickinson, you’d write regardless of the challenges you might be facing. Writing would turn out to be the activity through which you derive the most joy.

Dickinson wrote a lot despite challenges. And you can do likewise by embracing the craft wholly. By being determined to use your talent to impact many lives in different ways. And sticking to the process until you grow to truly love the craft.

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Conclusion

Are you going to leave your stories untold and let them die with you? Are you going to write and share it with everyone so it stays alive in the lives of many?

You know, writers that told their stories didn’t utterly die because their words, and ideas live on. And that’s what we need to remember them as we continue to draw inspirations, and knowledge from their writings to help us create pieces that would likewise support others.

Don’t allow the endless issues of life to stop you from writing and sharing your stories… Like Louis L’Amour rightly said, “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” Point your pen on the blank page and let the ink flow. Let the empty pages be filled with pieces that would give your life meaning and add value to the lives of your readers.

Let your love for the craft keep you going. Interest and passion are infectious and far-reaching. And when woven together in a story, the story would go far to connect with many in different ways. Stories make the world beautiful. It’s how we clothe the world with different beautiful garments for all to adore.