• As humans, we all have something that makes us feel better. For me, it was writing my heart out. I did realize it slightly late, say when I was around 24. It changed how I looked at things around me for he better. Not only did it help me get out of my shell but also helped me becoming more powerful with my thoughts

Not only it helped me fight issues like stress and anxiety but has also helped me become a better person altogether.

1. It makes me more empathetic

There is an old saying about “wearing many hats”; well a writer has to wear many heads. You cannot get away with writing from the outside in; you must learn to live inside another mind. Doing that in writing makes it easy to extend that to your personal life. Questions like “What is this person’s motivation? What drives him or her?” don’t have to be limited to writing workshops or book clubs; these questions also apply to real people in real situations, and understanding that means understanding them.

2. It makes me a better reader.

I’ve always loved to read, but it wasn’t until I began to write seriously that I fully appreciated what a joy a perfectly executed sentence is.  Trying to write anything, a novel, a blog, a tweet (?), forces you to humble yourself to the masters and savor their effort all the more. Although a casual reader may say that focusing so intensely on how something is written rather than what is written impoverishes the experience, but I disagree. Instead, it gives you a greater breadth of sensations as you read, and getting more from a book can’t be bad.

3. It makes me a more supportive friend.

Oftentimes, you hear of creative people being extremely jealous of their friends’ successes and harboring bitterness towards their work. I have found the opposite to be true. When I first began showing friends my work, and eventually showing the world my work through my blog, I was blown away by the overwhelmingly positive responses people gave it, and by extension, me. Writer’s is a lonely world and self-doubt is always a looming shadow cast over everything you put to paper, so having someone validate your work is an amazing and incredibly emotional experience.

4. It makes me more curious.

I’ve always been interested in the world, but writing puts that curiosity into action. I want to better understand the world so that I can, in turn, better write about it. If the old adage: “write what you know” is true, then learning more is an incredible asset to a writer in expanding the writer’s the range. Because a lot of what I write is fact based, I have an inclination to get to the bottom of things.

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