4 Reasons Why Writing Is Art

Khadejah
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readJul 8, 2020

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And you should treat it like one.

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When you’re someone that writes every day for a living. It’s extremely easy for writing to feel like a chore sometimes. Of course, you’re passionate about it and you want to keep going. But it’s inevitable to have moments when you feel like you’re losing creativity.

If you treat anything like a job, it’s easy to lose creativity.

You probably look at other mediums of art like painting, film, music, etc, and ask yourself “Damn, I wish I could do that instead of writing right now”.

Well, what if I told you a little secret?

Writing is art and here’s why.

1. Putting words together is much harder than it seems.

The people who downplay writing as an art form, don’t understand how hard it actually is to put words together. I guess it seems like an everyday task people do all the time.

Do you know how much blood, sweat, and tears writers put in to keep readers interested in reading their work?

You can say it’s not rocket science all you want. Maybe it isn’t rocket science because you don’t have to entice people to stay on the rocket. You just make it.

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Khadejah
ILLUMINATION

I write about life lessons, writing, social justice, and productivity. New articles published weekly. Follow me on Twitter :https://twitter.com/KhadejahJ22