Splashing My Watercolours – Lilacs and Teals on the Medium Canvas
Co-witnessing the Painting as it Turns Out!
“As you walk on the way, the way appears”
— Rumi
#1-Writing is Not For the Faint Hearted
Writing that forges a connect with the reader is the one where the reader can sense the writer’s core feelings.
It can be challenging to lay bare the vulnerable elements of your soul, as a writer.
It is like peeling the layers of an onion.
As you write a piece every day, you become more and become more relaxed to sharing the elements of your story.
It is part of the gradual evolution of a writer.
#2 — Your Learn to Enjoy Your Own Company
Writing is such a solitary activity.
At the same time, it allows one to experience one’s own company. You are engaging with your own perspective. You are continuously evaluating processes and ideas.
You are in a constructive creation mode.
With every story you write, you take a giant baby step as you submit it to a publication.
One day at a time.
Your POV is flowing out of you.
You are writing to convey a message to your community. Y’all wonderful readers of medium. I am so grateful for your time. And attention.
#3- You Have to be Willing to Write in a Void
It can be so challenging to sit all by yourself in a café and write. Though you are surrounded by people that are peering into their own laptops, you are all by yourself.
That is how it is in real life.
Walking in a crowd whilst fighting your own personal battles, your own demons – navigating your own path in life.
It feels like you are writing into the void. Every single time.
Yet when the day is over, you feel good when you have ticked the box for submitting one story in the pub you wished for it to appear in.
A sense of satisfaction.
A gratifying day indeed.
#4- By Marching to Your Sense of Purpose, Your Trajectory Begins to Take Shape
A sense of purpose drives you. But you are marching pretty much to your own tune.
I am marching, putting one step in front of the other.
I know deep down that very soon a trajectory will begin to form.
The way shall appear.
With every thought I convey.
With every message I put out.
With every idea that I coax from my mind.
Baby steps!
For now, I’m enjoying the process.
The way it should be.
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