At the heart of this blog, the core of this little creative project I’ve been working on here, there is but a single message burning with the inner heat that drives the whole damn thing: it is one piece of advice. Start writing.
Oh, I get it. You don’t have the passion or the time or the urge or the patience.
That device in your hands is so great at capturing your attention and entertaining you with the ideas and thoughts of other people—or maybe now I should include algorithms and slop—that you can’t be bothered to use it to make something.
But writing is at the core of creativity. It is the uber-skill that shapes and refines all the others.
Writing is the materialization of thoughts—reflective and critical, personal and communicative, coherent and scattered—upon the page.
Writing makes you better at evaluating yourself and whatever you do.
Writing closes the loop and fills the gap and bridges the points of something you cannot articulate is missing in your soul until you start writing.
It’s not difficult.
Open any app that takes text: your notes, your word-processor, hell, write yourself an email… but write something. And then write some more. And keep writing after that. It will improve you in ways you cannot fathom until you’ve written enough to see it for yourself.
Terms FROm this POSt
- blog
- I am old. And I started posting formatted words and photos online before the word blog had entered the common lexicon. Most people work in the medium of social platforms these days, but being both a product of my time and a stickler for content ownership and control, I still lean into and promote the idea that the blog (a content managed general purpose personal website) is the beating heart of the internet I once knew and loved.
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