practice your craft to master it.

i’m really happy that i discovered medium right before 2015 ended. i think that it forced me out of my tumblr and is giving me a channel that inspires and motivates me to explore and challenge myself more. it’s something that i really needed right now.

one of the first posts that i read on medium was about how to write for money. it talked about how writing is one of the hardest things to do as a living. its so hard to break through the barrier and get published or even recognized and read by people nowadays. with the ever changing atmosphere that is technology, people have shorter attention spans and want to receive the information that they want, ASAP. recognizing this was the thing that caused me to change my major my first year in college and i haven’t decided if thats something that i regret just yet. writing has always meant so much to me, there’s so much power in the perfectly constructed sentence and even more impact for a beautifully inspired story. but you see, writing is so subjective that i was already afraid of not being able to meet people’s expectations...or maybe i was afraid that i wouldn’t be able to meet my own…

however, as life would have it, writing has followed me. 
i currently work as a marketer, a curious content creator.

reading that article helped me realize that writing, much like all of creativity itself, needs to be practiced. & it needs to be practiced fearlessly!

there will always be bad days, but with them, good ones too! not everything i put out will be amazing, not every word will move someone into a different emotion. but practicing and sharpening my words will help me find the tone that i wish to steady.

write anything, write everything! 
try it all!

all of those short fragments that are floating in your head or the long stories that you dreamt up a day, a month, or a year ago.

the way that a stranger on the street is dressed. the way a song makes you feel. the way the sky looks when you first wake up in the morning. describe the excitement that stirs within you knowing that you are going to see you favorite person in the world. anything, everything.

so, i’m going to start writing it all, to the best of my ability.

welcome to my mini thought catalog, welcome to my open journal. 
welcome to my life lessons, my life struggles and most of all, my life’s smiles.