Writers enjoy writing. Writing can be a gratifying experience for both authors and readers alike because it teaches you more about the world. It can shed light on new perspectives and helps create meaning in your life. Finding words to express thoughts and feelings is a powerful form of expression.
I love to write because it allows my mind to go to anyplace it wants to with no restrictions. Writing, I've found,is a way to express myself in ways I may not otherwise be comfortable doing. I enjoy writing because I love being able to express myself and my own ideas. I enjoy writing because it has so much freedom.
Writing comes with many emotional ups and downs. You will often feel like your writing is amazing one day and the worst the next. Some days, you might feel like you're going to be able to finish the whole book in a few days. Others, you might feel like you can't write a single word and you're just going to give up.
As it turns out, writers rate their career happiness 4.1 out of 5 stars which puts them in the top 7% of careers.
When we're being creative, and especially when we're tapped into that magical kind of creativity, it's an extremely pleasurable experience. From the instant we start writing until our work is completed, we're on a wild ride, exciting but dangerous too.
Writer's fatigue and writer's block are similar concepts. Whereas blocks can happen at any point in the writing process, even before you've begun, fatigue normally occurs after extended periods of writing. The condition is frustrating, emotionally draining, and affects confidence.
Because writing is hard work. Sure, it's not physically hard but your brain uses a lot of energy and we have not evolved to spend hours a day trying to produce words from our heads. But there is a difference between being tired and feeling fatigued, stressed and on the way to burnout.
Studies of artists and writers collated in Scientific American confirm that artists and writers are up to 20 times more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder (also called manic depressive illness) and 10 times more likely to suffer from depression.
According to experts, we start becoming more creative and prolific in whatever field of art or study we work, around the age of 25. Most people reach their peak after the age of 35 or in their 40s. This is when they produce their most valuable work.
Through the blessing of writing, an individual can share his/her thoughts, ideas, feelings, experiences and much more. Moreover, written words have a much stronger and broader impact on the human conscience than the spoken words we oftentimes use in our regular speech.
An effective writer is able to distill complex thoughts and ideas into simple, clear language that's quickly and easily understood by others. This valuable quality helps them tackle even the densest subject matter by breaking it down into uncomplicated pieces.
The Challenges of Writing a Realistic Romance
Writing romance is hard because human emotions are hard—and love is one of the most complex emotions we have. To make matters worse, writing a compelling novel requires you to create conflict, and love stories are no different.
They compare themselves to other writers
Perhaps the biggest reason that writers fail, the reason that ties in with all of the others above, is that too many writers compare themselves to others. Instead of developing their own voice and style, they try to emulate someone else who is doing well.
The hardest part about the skill of writing is consistency
See, in comparison to most writers, taking just 3 days off of writing isn't much time at all. If anything, taking all that time off of work is a much-needed break.
A potential disadvantage of being a writer is that the quality of work is subjective. The appeal of a written work can vary from one reader to the next. A young reader might enjoy a simple article with words that are easy to understand, while a mature reader might find it dull.
One of the downsides to becoming a fulltime author or writer is that, by its very nature, writing can be a very lonely business. Typically, it's just you and a computer, shut off from the rest of the world, all alone with your thoughts.
Writing is hard. Not everyone has the capacity to create stories or articles out of thin air. More often than not, writing is an activity that requires solitude, which is why some of the world's best writers are also introverts.
Compared to the novice brains, the brains of the expert writers showed additional activity in the caudate nucleus, which is responsible for automatic functions, and the Broca's and Wernicke's areas, which deal with language and word formation.
In short, being a writer does get easier, not because the writing itself gets easier (it doesn't), but because your capacity to manage the difficulties grows exponentially—if you're willing to embrace the possibilities, endure the difficulties while they last, and reject the misconceptions that mastery is impossible.
“Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer.”
Worry not, fair writers, because you can make a living as a writer. It just takes some understanding and, like all careers, dedication and hard work. In this blog, we're going to talk about what it takes to turn writing into your career.