Just A Dip, Now I'm in Deep || My Writing Experience

Hello,
I'm glad to have you here.

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Writing is one of those things I have always considered to be super powers. It is also like when I see drummers use all their four limbs to make a sequence of beats and, in turn, produce rhythm. And it probably shouldn't because I am a guitarist myself, but it always does: I adore drummers.

Surely, I can not be the only one. You, dear reader, must have something you can't do but are fascinated by when someone else does it exceptionally well.It could be singing, driving, programming, or anything at all you can not really do. But I guess that is the one reality of our human nature; we are fascinated a lot by things we cannot do, or should I say, things we have not given time to learn and understand.

Writing is one thing that I never really saw myself doing simply because I deemed it so much of a skill that was extremely difficult to hone. A skill that must have come from heaven at birth. And believe me, that notion is still there, because, clearly, I am now writing. I know that anything that has to be learned has its difficulties and requires a lot of work to be honed.

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I had never really tried writing until two months ago when I started here on HIVE, or so I thought. And ever since then, I have had quite a handful of experiences.

You may be thinking, "What experiences could a two-month old writer possibly have?" Which is what I would think too, if I were to be you reading this post. But I have dedicated a considerable amount of time to it and I have had some experience along the way.

You see, I never considered myself a writer before two months ago, but I had actually been writing.

The beginning...

Growing up, I always felt unable to express myself sufficiently. My thoughts and feelings were always just within me. I do not mean expressing my feelings to people, but expressing them within my thoughts.

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I am the type of person who has a lot going on upstairs, but I assure you, I am sane. But these thoughts usually seem vague to me. Not until I got myself a journal and I started expressing myself to myself using words. And doing that made my thoughts and feelings become lucid to me.

Now, what I intended to do on HIVE was just play guitar. And that was the basis of why @starstrings01 brought me here; he thought I should get rewards for making music. But what I have been doing here has been quite the opposite. Rather than expressing myself with music, I have been writing instead.

It started with my introductory post. At the moment I was done, I let out a sigh of "that's an achievement," and it felt good because I had once again put my thoughts into words. And reading my thoughts is simply refreshing. From there, I began to give writing a try on HIVE.

Writer's block?

Writing is not something I now consider easy. If I had said so, you might have said, "Oh, really?" "Tell me more!" eager to hear the unwise words I would put out.

But, as I mentioned earlier, there are always challenges to learning something new, and writing is not one of them. And my biggest issue would be getting burned out.

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In this short time I have been here, there have been times that I needed to write but had nothing to put down (this happens when I have been writing a lot). So whenever this happens, I just take a break to cool off. Otherwise, I just waste time in front of my screens. I have talked about dealing with stagnation.(_{You're Moving, But You're Not}).

Ways writing has helped me.

In many ways, writing has helped me. The first, which I have mentioned earlier, is expressing my thoughts and feelings. Another is learning.

There is no way I end up not learning a new thing after writing. There is always a need to check for new words and how to use them. I always need to research more about some topics so I do not come off as lacking knowledge about them. And because of writing, I am enlightened about things, which, in turn, makes me better.

My plans for writing...

One plan is to never stop writing. If I did, I wouldn't be able to express myself as effectively as I do now. It is much easier to evaluate and assess one's thoughts when they are laid out in front of you.

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Another plan is to keep learning so as to develop myself. I definitely do not want to be the same way I am in 5 years to come. I'd like to be much better, so I could inspire (myself, most especially).

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In other words...

I have come to love writing and it has now become a part of me. It started with just a dip, and now I am in deep, but it has been a wonderful experience in all.

Although this post is coming late (yesterday was the deadline), I could not just let it pass without putting in my entry.