avatarFaya Qureshi

Summary

Faya Qureshi, a self-described "crazy writer," reflects on her journey from writer to editor, emphasizing the importance of community support and the personal growth that comes from embracing one's unique writing style.

Abstract

Faya Qureshi introduces herself as a writer who struggles with consistency but maintains a deep love for writing. Despite calling herself a writer, she admits to periods of not writing and grapples with the expectations of what a writer should be. She shares her personal challenges, including mixed personality traits and a dislike for repetitive social interactions, while also acknowledging her need for expression through writing. Faya discusses the key features she has observed in good writers and questions where she fits among these traits. She expresses gratitude for the support she has received from other writers on Medium, which has helped her through her writing journey. Now, as an editor of the publication "Inside The Mind Of A Writer," she invites others to submit their work and promises to nurture their writing.

Opinions

  • Faya views herself as a writer who defies the conventional expectations of writing regularly or perfectly.
  • She believes that good writers often possess seemingly contradictory traits, such as extreme shyness yet a drive to express themselves through writing.
  • Faya values the act of writing as a form of therapy and encourages others to write freely without self-imposed perfectionism.
  • She emphasizes the importance of community support in the writing process, particularly highlighting the encouragement she received from fellow Medium writers.
  • As an editor, Faya is committed to fostering a space where new writers can feel confident in sharing their work.
  • She acknowledges the challenges of writing, including self-doubt and the struggle to maintain a consistent writing practice.
  • Faya suggests that personal growth in writing comes from embracing one's individual process and finding confidence in one's unique voice.

Meet Faya “A Crazy Writer”: (A Journey of a Writer to Editor)

She calls herself a writer, but she does not write. She writes, she has no idea what she writes. But she writes.

Writers also do a 9 to 5. It’s me, and I accept the fact and believed in employment after 2 years of non-working affairs. It’s okay to be regular, don’t let the internet blockhead you, my people.

It’s Sunday but not Funday. I usually wake up early but today it’s 11 am. No worries, let me grab a cup of coffee although it’s summer hot neither of us could thaw by, it’s mandatory for every pageant writer. Maybe the best medicine can stay up to last night longer. I hope the book I read and whatever it has flaws do not blow me off this time.

My name is Faya and let me remind you again I’m not a content writer. As they listen to the word writer, they are supposed to be content writers. Oh, you are a content writer, okay write something about us, No, I’m not bro, Neither I’m a content writer nor can I write anything casually.

Well, let me share some of my worst insights apparently to you. I’m a bad writer and on top of that, I’m the worst writer in consistency. I can’t write every day but I do tell my journal about myself all day, I keep with me a journal beside my bed and write about my day’s hesitations that keep me going all day. Let me just blow you off. I don’t write regularly and though I’m crazy about writing. The title shows your eyes I’m a crazy writer. A writer who never writes for herself about how she feels inside. Who hides misery in her heart.

I speak just like right now I am speaking and Google Docs writing for me, I am already absolutely loving this feature. Okay, now the time is up.

This feature can be used for professional English speakers so much, as I tell you my speaking skills could be the worst thing you would have ever snagged, I mean it might be your threatening nightmare. But I will keep trying my best. (I’m not speaking)

Well, do you know what good writers have explicit key features in their writing styles?

You should know, I saw and contacted many writers in my early writing phases and fetched similar key features in all of them: they all had a core of extreme sheepishness with zero interpersonal dexterities, feel a hell going out in the crowd, and interacted with people, slow talkers, bad at understanding somebodies languages, moody readers and writers(Ain’t strange?), bad in vocabularies, highly stupid, clumsy, and cries a lot after done any stupidity.

I don’t know but in some cases, I know who I’m and I’m still finding myself where I lie in between these features, maybe I’m not a good writer, or maybe I can after. It all starts with how much you put effort into the things that you truly desire. I do what I love and my love is writing and want to do something big in this meadow.

Do I have to tell you about the spatial traits of the writer?

Let’s start there ;

I have mixed and confusing personality disorders. For example, sometimes I do stupid stuff, and I hate attending family gatherings. God helps me with this but I can’t answer the same shit over and again to people. I had only one best friend but for some reason, I’ve been barren in friendships since the day she officially resigned my friendship. (too bad for lengthier friendships)

Sometimes I speak a lot louder, and sometimes stay quiet. But I prefer to speak up, that is my therapy, staying quiet for a long bit of time isn’t my core metier. As I speak I find myself lighter and more manageable.

Do you acknowledge your self-core in the mirror? How much does this mean to you? What will happen if somebody tries to make you feel gaiety when your body and soul have completely shattered you from the inside or vice versa?

Try to find the soul which you had coffee with long ago.

Did you try?

At first, I feel like going with a person that I should be with, not really I shouldn’t be with. I maximize myself by breaking the ice with people who I have genuine work with or tersely who live alone. I catch up with the vibe and go through with it. I have no idea why the fuck I care when somebody does not care about where they are going or what to be. Ahh, I can’t pretend to be nicer, but I’m sure lovelier to people each day of my life.

Pretty books and pretty people (Francisco Iglesias Alexander Semenyuk The Sturg Hapijur Rahaman Amal Backer Mark Armstrong Manthan Makwana) have loved me since I started my journey on Medium. They sincerely took away half of my stress by reading my uneven or confusing writing technique.

“And if you don’t know what you want to pen down just write what your head spinning over the past few hours in you. I never got confused about what I should write or whether my writing should be perfect I just helped my fingers to write unevenly and that was the best part I love in me”.

Create confidence in whatever you write and your fingers should sense the healing process of writing.

Your writing should stand for the people who just have their feet in the writing meadow.

When I started my Medium life, I experienced dark and yellow days, mostly yellow days (days when you feel delighted and excited about writing online and making good buddies like Francisco Iglesias hard to find). As he starts putting my pieces into the bookish world, It filled my soul out of the hell court and stimulated my fingers to give new birth to my pieces. You know what? BECAUSE HE IS THE ONE WHO PUT ME IN THE BOX and showed me the mirror of my self art> That is why supporting the fellows is the truest form of showing integrity most around you.

So, my dear fellows, it's me after a long time and I know some people would have been surprised to see me return back to my writing things and some would be loved to see. But I just wanted to convey through this article that I’M OFFICIALLY the EDITOR NOW of the publication below.

JOIN US :

Trust me or not. You, people, are more to me. You can now submit your stories to us. We promise to keep you and your words would be saved here.

(Alexander Semenyuk Veronica Llorca-Smith Amal Backer The Sturg Katy Ramm Apurva Acharya Francisco Iglesias Sude Hammal Adbeel Omars Mark Armstrong Marilyn Glover Hazel Paradise Ikejiara Lawson Wallace Mark Goblowsky JD Greyson Elena Emthy Story Emily’s Travel Tips Erica Marie James E. McGinley, PhD Haseeb Qureshi Kaye Smith PhD Lorie Kleiner Eckert Quinn Norton nancy Lipika Sahu Emmanuella Ogbonna Revanth Goud Laura Blackhurst Yana Bostongirl Yusuf Melih Basli Jennifer Bonn Michael Batko Natasha MH Jwngsat Narzary augmented man The Onion Mohini Vats Gary Vaynerchuk Jenny Odell Malaïka Yıldız stories🌙 Amal Backer Sandra Tabansi Samantha Jones Emmanuel Wambugu Pierre. Minimalism proud Autistic. Ruth James Eric Elliott Soumya John Drashti Shroff azzam nugrahadi Jim Clyde Monge Nom de Plume Hapijur Rahaman Yusuf Melih Basli Rolando Ochoa Charlene Ann Mildred Ihadkay Manthan Makwana René Beauchemin - [he/him] Simona Stefanescu Cappelli, MFA, JD, PhD A Grain of Salt | ElbyJames Melissa Ndip Riva Kajangu Laura Blackhurst Off-Grid Romania Samantha Jones JD Greyson Jama Ali Wendy Jane Farrow)

And I especially apologize to the people who I left mentioning. Trust me salute this guy and special thanks to Francisco Iglesias who mentions people in his every article and never forgets them. And lad I remember you.

I have an extreme headache and in my country, there is no Starbucks :( So, Buy me a coffee with love. Please, I really want to have it now.

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You guys can buy me a coffee to fuel my work. It would be highly helpful.

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