5 Reasons to Write Something Today

There are many reasons why you should be writing but let’s review the top 5 reasons to start writing today. Keep in mind there is no right way or wrong way to write. Your style is all yours and you are given permission to do what comes naturally.

Written Expression

Writing or journaling is an easy form of expressing yourself. Whether you write to release pent up anger or you’re writing a melancholy love poem, letting those feelings become a visual concept helps to release anxieties, fear or depression.

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person holding blue ballpoint pen writing in a notebook. writing something today helps to alleviate anxiety and stress. — Writing for therapy

To therapeutically release pent-up emotions, you should use a private journal. This journal shouldn’t be read by anyone but you. By having this secret and private journal, you are open to write without restraint.

It’s good to release this emotion on paper but destroy the contents once you have succeeded. I would suggest throwing the paper or journal or whatever you use into a fire and watch it burn. There is a final release when you watch your resentment, bitterness, and hate turn to ash.

Write to Fill a Void

When there is an empty feeling in the pit of your stomach, in your thoughts or in the middle of your heart, writing fills that void. When you give credence to the emptiness, then the color of your words plugs the hole.

A green chair in an empty room signifies another reason to write something today. Loneliness. Fill a void. — When you have an emptiness

When an artist begins to paint, he uses a blank empty canvas. With tools of the trade, he adds lines, colors, and shapes to fill the space. Writing is like that. Writing is a form of art that fills a blank screen or a lined page.

With pen or with keyboard, how you write doesn’t matter. What matters is that you fill the empty space. Write whatever matters to you at the moment. Write often and before you know it, the art of writing is your calling.

Write Your Legacy

Writing is a chance for us to make a mark on the world. Or better yet, create a new and better world. We can’t live forever but what if you could write something that did last forever?

Imagine finding a book dated over a hundred years ago written by your great grandparent. What do you think she would say? I found one from my great-grandma written when she was a young adult. And yes, she wrote it over a hundred years ago.

Cover of A Poetic Time Machine - A journal of poems from early 1900's.

My great-grandmother’s memoir is a perfect example of an opportunity to travel in time. She wrote about young love (and the inappropriateness of her suitor after 11 p.m.), the first automobile (that noisy contraption in town) and attending a baseball game (when it wasn’t appropriate for women to attend).

In her own artful (and likely unintended) way, she gives us a looking glass effect of understanding what her life was like in 1914. If you really think about it, today is soon to be the past. Write today so we don’t forget tomorrow.

Write Your Words

Your words, expression, ideas and thoughts are no one else’s but yours. There is nothing already written that truly is what or how you would say something or anything. So, write because you are unique and one-of-a-kind and what you have to say is important to someone, somewhere, sometime.

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If five people stood on a dusty dirt farm road, looked past the wooden rail fence, to see a field of wild flowers, and wrote an article or description about it; each individual would have an essay of such different and wild views that in itself would be amusement. A reader would not know that all five authors saw and wrote about the same field of wildflowers.

Gray barn on white and green field near trees with sunshine. when 5 different writers describe this scene, you'll get 5 unique stories. — Perception is key.

Write to Tell a Story

Before there was the written word, there was story-telling. People passed down the stories of the old ones by word-of-mouth. If you’ve ever played ‘the telephone’ game, then you know by the time the original whispered message has come around to you, it has disintegrated into an unrecognizable message. Luckily, we have the written word to harness the real message and re-tell the story correctly.

Our minds recollect stories differently. That is most likely why video has become such a hot trend. But what video and movies fail to express, is the thoughts and emotions behind the scene that takes place in front of your very eyes. Before you go to the theater to see the next movie, read the book first. I promise your view and perception of the movie will not be the same after reading the book first.

I don’t think anyone decides to become a writer. Whether you write because you have a story to tell, an issue to resolve or message to send to the future, just do it. Write because your words matter today. Write to bring value to the world.

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