Why 2019 is Made for Writing

It's rather challenging to just sit down and write from scrap but more so, the task of actually finding the time to just sit down and...write

More than finding the time to sit and write for hours on end, I guess what's more challenging is actually finding the will to keep writing and not stopping midway because of thoughts that it might not be as good as you thought it would and then just scrapping out the whole thing altogether. You see, this is the hardest part about writing (or lack of time thereof, how long was I gone again?): the longer you go without writing, the more you lose the will, and the more you lose the will to write, the harder it will be for you to try and get back that sense of purpose as to why you started writing in the first place. The truth is, nobody starts writing without purpose. You start from scratch, then you begin scribbling a coherent string of words that may or may not make much sense but at the end of it all, you realize you've actually been writing for something or someone (now, there's your purpose). You may not realize it yet as you try and patch together words in the middle of your thought, heck you may not even know the purpose of your writing as soon as you start but once you've placed that full stop or period on your last line and you re-read the whole thing again, the first thing that pops into your head once you finish writing will be the purpose for that piece. In short, you're never gonna run out of reasons to write and that essentially brought me to the realization as to why 2019 is made for writing.

Honestly, my love for writing never withered away. It's the will and time that's the main issue here but eventually, I came to realize that I can't keep putting off something that I really love to do because if I don't start now, I am gonna have a harder time starting later. Do y'all dig? For the longest time, I've been guilty of trying to come up with all sorts of excuses just not to write. I used to always ask myself, "what should I write about?" and if I don't have a concrete answer to that, I don't start writing. It was a valid reason up until I realized that I just kept using it as an excuse not to write and it's frustrating because I thought at first that I had to have something to write about but now, I'm realizing more and more that writing doesn't work that way and it's weird that I've only become aware of this now since I've been writing for as long as I can remember (and by that I meant waaaaaaaaaaay back Brunei days). Bottomline is, you don't have to wait until you have something to write about...........just sit down and write. That's all the magic there is, basically and it's taken me this long to figure it out but the sooner you do it, the easier it'll be in the long run.

So yeah, this is just a little memo to announce that I'm gonna be back into blogging so you can expect more poems, prose, A Day in the Life of and whatnot posts in this online space of mine. 

Now that the cat's out of the bag, what is your 2019 made for?

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