CREATIVE WRITING HAS HELPED ME A LOT AND IT COULD HELP YOU TOO!

My brain can never stay in one place, it’s hilarious yet annoying at the same time. I just can’t focus on one idea at a time. I think of an idea just for another one to appear in my head right after. While this helps with my creativity, I essentially cut myself out from the deliberating process by moving from one idea to another in an instant.

I didn’t have a problem with this initially. However, over time, I realized that I needed to be more concise with my speech. I realized that even I didn’t make sense to myself a lot of the time. My words had no meaning, and often, I asked myself — “what was your point again?”

I figured that it didn’t look good on me if I constantly left the people I was talking to in a state on confusion.

I wanted to do music a long time ago but it was never really for me. More details on that here

While searching for something else to do with my life, I was scouring Youtube and proceeded to go down a rabbit hole of self-development videos. Two things that most of the videos had in common were — reading and writing. While searching for a new passion to indulge myself with, I followed the instructions, and I read and wrote (though there was a lot more writing than reading).

“I really like this,” I said to myself. All of a sudden, something I was indifferent to became something I enjoyed. I got excited as I thought about ideas before bed, and when I sat to explore my creative state. “Why didn’t I think of this earlier?”

I was focused on music, that’s the answer, as I should have been because it was indeed the goal at the time. I’m not beating myself over it anymore, and now, I’m just glad that I found writing because I notice myself being able to explain concepts better to people and not stuttering every single chance I got.

I don’t know if you ,the reader, deal with stuttering, but I used to — a lot. It wasn’t necessarily because I was nervous, I just couldn’t pin my ideas to one place and that usually left me stuttering and frustrated. What’s worse is that moment I can see someone pay attention to what I’m saying, then there’s that moment where we both think, “oh, he’s lost the plot”. I couldn’t just say anything anymore, I’ve got to think first.

I now stutter a lot less because I’ve been able to understand my ideas a lot better through writing about them and working out the inconsistencies and illogic. This has made my arguments a lot more sound. For instance, you could know what a chasm is yet unable to define it. In the process of writing, one would have to think deeply about the subject to be able to put it into words. You can’t explain a concept to someone properly when even you don’t fully comprehend it, and that is something writing has assisted with.

Finally, one more thing writing has given me apart from a home is confidence. As I said, I wanted to do music and I struggled for a while as I decided on the next steps along my pathway through life. After having written for a while now, I feel progress as I improve, and as a result, I’m a lot more competent than I was before. You don’t have to write an academic research paper, just do some sort of creative writing. While it is true that writing may not be for everyone, it may be for you, just try it.

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