Are You Truly Writing Your Future?

If You’re Not You Should Be

It’s the one thing many of us never think too hard about. The future, our future, a future that is often clouded or hampered by severe life events in our present.

Viral things immediately spring to mind.

But the very act of writing something every day should be prepping you as a writer for your future works. What you write now and how you write it will prepare you for enhanced styles of writing, perspectives, and the way you take in the world around you.

When your future eventually rolls around.

Each time you write something, you’ve actually taken another step in the direction of your future. Now, don’t mistake your future for success, and conversely, don’t take it to be a dismal failure either.

It’s merely your future as a writer.

But what you write now, and you should be writing something every day, will determine how well you pave the road you’re on as you take each step along the path of your future.

As a writer, you probably have many things you wish to happen in the future. You want, of course, to improve. Maybe you want to be on the NYT best-seller list. Perhaps you want to make a modest, but comfortable living, or you don’t. You might be a writer who writes simply because it makes you feel good.

You may not care that much about the material benefits, but rather the spiritual benefits when your heart and head pair up to create.

Totally cool.

Regardless of your inner or external motivations, you need to start writing your future now. Continue writing so that you improve, so you learn how to say more with less.

Keep writing with the intent to someday write that novel, if writing books is your bag, that indeed makes it to the NYT best-seller category.

If that’s how you see your future.

Continue hammering out articles on blogs, whether they be opinion pieces, confessionals, poetry, humor, or fiction. Each time you write something, you should be writing not just for now, but for your future.

You should be writing at this very moment in anticipation of what may happen days, months, or years from now.

An interesting thing about the future. You never know exactly what it’s going to bring and how things are going to pan out. And yet, right now, at this very minute, you can make every effort to ensure your future state gets as close to what you want or need as it possibly can.

You can start writing your future now, and with the understanding that with each piece you write, every word, every sentence, you’re forming your writing future.

Think about this, folks. None of us knows who’ll be reading what we write, ten, or twenty or even fifty years from now.

Maybe nobody. Maybe everybody.

So, the best we can aim for is working to get to the point where we’re writing something good enough our future readers will read and enjoy.

Cultures and mindsets change every day. Our readers are as fickle as a pickle as we are. Maybe they’re not reading our work now, but that doesn’t mean they won’t sometime in the future.

That’s why we need to write for that future, that moment in time when the word gets around that we as writers have turned out some outstanding work.

Although this is a marathon journey, we’re all on, it does have a beginning, a middle, and ultimately an end. The trick is, and as Franklin Covey always said, to start with the end in mind.

Write now for now, but also write now for the future.

One day, we’ll get to the future. One day we’ll look back and take a brief moment to admire what we did. Then we’ll square our shoulders, take a deep breath and as we stare the future in the eye, we’ll get back to writing something.

We’ll get back to writing something for our new future.

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