What Prevents You And Me From Good Writing

Being human frequently means being pursued by the ghost with long easily recognizable name “If not…, I would definitely be…I’ll definitely do…[WOW]”. Let’s substitute our WOW for Writing (as long as it probably fit most of you). Notes, essays, stories, novels, reviews…No matter what. As always the main is the verb and it says: “WRITING”. Are there any possible restrictions in my mind for this kind of activity? What about your mind?
My contemplation on writing has evolved from “Why I’m writing” to “What prevents me from good writing”. The last one took the longest. What I finally came to was next. The most influential obstacle is egoism. We are incredibly focused on ourselves. As never before. Let’s admit humanity has never been so mad about itself and so ignorant to anything else.

Good writing means the ability to catch life’s intricacies and interpret them in own words (one of the thousands of possible definitions). But how can you catch anything around if you’re thinking all the time how to get a higher salary or where to order sushi?

How can it happen?

If you suppose that I’m wrong let me be disproved. How? Take one-day challenge. Trace your thinking activity from waking up till the latest night by shortly noting on what you’re mostly thinking about. Once plunging into the everyday routine you will quickly forget about your one-day challenge. For this reason, try to keep it in mind somewhere close and make notes every time you recall it. Observing results next day, you’ll figure out what your attention actually sticks to. You’ll see that the most powerful things, those to what you’re dedicating a major portion of your mind energy are spinning around your own problems. Is it bad? I don’t really think so. It’s part of our evolution. That’s why you can’t just say: “It’s bad. You’re bad. That’s it.”

What’s next?

Anyway if you want to improve your writing skills then you need to be able not to let things just pass by. It can be practiced as anything else. Try to be attentive to the routine stuff and you’ll reveal the whole world beyond the edge of trivial attention. It can mean becoming more silent in both your outer and inner dialogues. However, it will be rewarded. Go further and make notes when you notice something new in routine things. Soon you’ll become more curious about how things work and what they consist of. It will boost your creative vision and if you’ve ever lacked imaginative skills, you’ll see that they also can be improved by means of training your attention.