Distributed by curators in WRITING
How to Take Your Writing Less Seriously
When you become a serious writer, it is easy to forget about your lighter side
Do you remember how excited you felt about writing when you were not a writer?
Do you remember the relaxation that writing brought you when you were writing only for yourself in your diary?
Do you recall how exciting new ideas flooded your mind with an ecstatic pleasure?
If you can’t remember any of these, then you’re taking your writing too seriously.
That may affect the pleasantness of your writing and your personality. It is not a good sign.
You are writing original stuff. You are creating material from the depths of your soul. Right? If you are not having fun writing your stories, your readers will feel your too serious tone in your writing.
They would not like your story if you were not enjoying the process. Consider it a warning and relax.
Creativity is not a chore. You can’t be more creative by doing more. You have to think more freely, and you can do it only when you are fully relaxed.
You can write about some of those silly ideas that are stuck in your mind, but you know that they won’t make good money.
It is you who is more important than a single article or story you wrote.
Please take a deep breath and then let it out gently. Repeat it for five minutes. It is an exercise for writing well if you believe me.
Go ahead and laugh at your mistakes. Yes, you were foolish to write those stupid stories. It’s all right.
Only that work will bring you money that brings happiness when you were doing it. You can throw away the article that you didn’t enjoy writing.
Writing is like signatures. It is always unique if you are in your writing piece — hiding in every word of your text — smiling at the reader.
Your book is going to be a rollercoaster ride that takes the readers into the depths of your mind. What do you want them to find there?
If you are a blogger, your readers are skimming through your content, trying to decide if they should read it. Let them find the happy writer that you are.
When you are relaxed and happy, you’ll come up with your best work.
Your mind is not a machine that works best under stress. It is the other way around.
Writers who don’t experiment, who don’t enjoy their work ultimately burn out. They start procrastinating. They want long breaks, and they want to binge on the best tv-series. Writing becomes a chore for them. Their words start losing meanings.
You know you love to write. You know you take your work seriously because you know paying attention pays in the end.
But every once in a while you need to think differently about your work too. How about not working for an hour or a full day.
Good writers take a break occasionally. It helps them to keep going to win the marathon of writing.
Sometimes, they take a deep breath and then breathe out slowly.
Having fun and laughing your head off is a writing exercise — trust me. It clears your head of all the thoughts and words that get stuck in there somewhere. It lightens the heavy heart after so many rejected drafts are trying to break your heart.
Writing can be hard at times. But sometimes it can be fun too. You can let go of yourself and let your hands do the talking on the keyboard.
See what word picture your hands make. Notice what your mind comes up with when you are taking things lightly. Your readers will know that you are a serious writer, but you have a human side as well.
You don’t buy every book when you go to a book store. You read the book reviews for guidance. The curation is a review of your written piece — by Medium. What Medium wants and what you can do about it — an explanation of the requirements for successful curation.
