Express Yourself in Writing

Everywhere I read it says: If you want to become a successful writer, you have to write.

Practice is really one of the truest forms of becoming a master in whatever people choose to become experts on.  I personally have always dreamed of writing. Somehow, writing allows me to express myself in better ways than using the verbal communication method.

I am shy. I have always been a quiet introvert. But blank pages are like magnets to self expression. As soon as I look at a blank page, a desire takes over me to fill in the white emptiness with something.  Anything. The problem is, many times shyness is more powerful. I start to doubt I will ever write anything meaningful.  Then, I remember what I’ve read from the masters: don’t think, just go ahead and write, no matter what it is. This stimulates imagination. And as with people who can speak flawlessly, it will just start coming and more and more things will be discovered.

Thank goodness for whoever had the brilliant idea of inventing language, specially written language. It’s true that human contact and talking to another human being in person is always well… more human. But I think that once all those ideas are written down, they are immortalized. While it’s good to tell a story to another person, maybe a group or a crowd, it is way better to be able to share it with hundreds, thousands, or maybe even millions of people. That is something extraordinary.