The textbook definition of writing is defined as the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper and inventing text. However, the term is different for everyone.
What exactly does writing encompass?
Something as complex as writing the next best selling novel or as simple as scribbling miscellaneous objects onto a worn notepad for your next trip to the grocery store. The beauty, though, is that writing can be both.
How can you write?
With a pencil and paper, a word processor and a computer, on the back of your hand with a marker! One of the best novels in the world started on the back of a coffee shop napkin.
Why should you write?
There doesn’t have to be a legitimate reason for writing. Due dates and stress are not a necessity. Write because you need to vent your anger. Write because it fills a void in your soul (or kidney, wherever!). Write to better yourself. Write because your fifth-grade teacher told you, once upon a time, you have a future as a creative writer. Write for the feeling you get when someone sees your work. Write because nothing feels better than people liking your work.
Life is short. Write something to leave behind on this big rock we’re all living on besides a noteworthy Netflix queue and one too many selfies on your phone.
Write because you have something to say.