Seven Story Publishing

The hardest thing about writing is also the easiest thing about writing. . .

Writing.

Sitting down at the laptop or typewriter and putting the words and worlds inside your head onto paper. It is the thing most writers have trouble doing consistently and those who write consistently tend to be the most successful at it.

While that is the general rule there are exceptions, people who write once every decade or once every five years and still manage to take the world by storm because they are just that good.

Most of us are not so lucky or gifted.

There are days where writing is the most natural thing in the world and others where it is the most foreign thing to your mind. Writing is enigmatic as it seems boring in light of all the stimuli in the world today from videogames to social media to streaming services, etc.

The most ironic part is that writing plays the quintessential role in all of those whether it be writing code or the script for the videogame, TV show, or movie, etc.

So, how does one write consistently?

The answer? You don’t.

At least, not until you center your life around writing stories and creating worlds. Most of the world today is designed to make you addicted and distract you from what matters.

Writing is the oldest drug we have because nothing stimulates the human mind like a powerful story. People underestimate the power of words and solely focus on action while forgetting it is words that lead to actions in the first place.

Writing itself is something that can fulfill or destroy your life if you let it, there’s a thrill involved with writing that can take you places you never thought possible.

Writing can be therapeutic or tortuous depending on the circumstances. Personally, I believe that the merit of a writer is not how much they can write on the days it is therapeutic but on the days it is tortuous. The days where writing is the last thing you want to do, where better stimulus calls upon you to take you away from your dreary reality for just a few hours.

That’s where the merit of a writer is truly tested and many of us fail, including myself.

But, being hard on yourself and trying to turn writing into a metric is not the way to write more. . .never has been and never will be.

Writing is a matter of creativity that comes in spontaneous bursts and spurts and not something that is readily available unless you make it a point to access it daily.

The universe of writing is available to everyone and anyone who is willing to access it and pluck from the endless supply of creativity, one only has to be willing to step through that door and close it behind them never to return to the ordinary world.

But most of us are reluctant to do such a thing. . .