After a gory fight, I finally forced myself to write!
“Writing is not for me at least!” I always engrave it whenever I start writing or maybe doing my writing assignment. It is not because I am scared of writing, it’s just a mix of a bunch of reasons: I just don’t feel doing a boring thing that includes typing continuously and smashing the ‘delete’ button, I don’t have anything to write, writing is luxurious while my life is nothing more than a filthy bathroom,…
Every single reader in this world can find this thing can really say they are obviously my pity excuses for the big one which is the scariness that haunts me.
Actually, they are right, so I really don’t have anything to comment on.
I found lots of scares whenever I try to settle on my desk chair, stare at the blank page in front of my eyes, and sort out all the chaotic thoughts in my mind. It just makes me look like nothing more than an idiot trying to do big things like saving the world, writing for a whole-A+ essay. I read some posts before down to my work about how to write well or how to write when you have nothing in your brain with doubt that I might not gain anything from those. However, they turned out to be kinda serious, and more helpful than other try-to-be-motivating-posts that I read earlier. Those articles gave you much realistic advice and idea on how to really get started in writing and how to improve your writing. I will try to summarize and note some good things:
Getting started is always the hardest part
“You can’t dream of writing if all you do is dreaming”. I agree that thinking about something is a piece of cake, but rolling up your sleeves and actually starting to write is the real problem. You can be scared like me, or you can make up for another bunch of imaginary emotions for your reluctant attitude towards writing, or you can end up question yourself: What will I write, how do I write, will it attract people,… you can answer all of these questions and defeat all unlogical emotions if you really head to it.
Reading is your writing’s BFF
There are tons of advantages you get from just reading: Improving your writing (of course you can learn new words and ideas from it), knowing and you can know what is your jam (what do you like to write). Personally, I use reading as a tool to learn advanced and lit vocabulary. It helps me a lot in not being awkward when I try to compete with my know-every-single-word friend to an extent. Moreover, I can kill my time productively by reading!!!
Turn writing into a habit
I am an early bird, for I always wake up at 5:30 AM with or without an alarm. It’s just because I have been training myself to wake up since I was a 6-year-old baby boy (The reason for that is the school is 30-min-walking from my home). The point here is you can really do anything if you can make it a familiar work that you are habitually doing, and you won’t any make the “not-having-time” kind of excuse. Just writing 30 mins every 2 days and it will gradually become one of your leisure thing to do.
That’s all I got from 30-min reading and also wrote this post in the most motivated state I’ve ever had. I just hope to keep writing like this and maybe one day it will become my best friend. I want to write not only about daily things but more sophisticated and serious topics.
Wish me luck!
P.S: I just really finished writing this in an hour. Unbelievable
