Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS writer.
I don’t write because I want to write. I write because I need to write. Writing is how I collect my own thoughts, how I frame my own ideas, how I work through my own shit. If I stop writing then I don’t know how else to process my own thoughts. Whether it’s writing a diary, or blog post, or even just lengthy Facebook status. It helps me think, focus, and make some sense of the mess and noise that goes on inside my head most of the time.
But writing it purely for myself – for no one else to ever read – isn’t enough, because tossing my own ideas back and forth between myself feels a little bit pointless.
Sometimes after I’ve written something and I read it back to myself I wish I’d written it sooner – so I could have read it sooner. And I think my own ideas could be helpful to someone else, or more importantly be something that someone else can relate with or connect to.
Because if I can achieve absolutely nothing else with my writing all I would want is to connect with people and have someone read something I’ve written and say “Me too”.
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