Writing. Have you ever written a note, sent a text, written a poem, a recipe, or jotted down your thoughts in a diary or journal? Perhaps you have written a blog, or a short story, a snippet for the local paper or council, a children’s book, or even a novel? 

We write many things on a daily basis, some insignificant like a shopping list or a brief note, a short text, other styles of writing are spontaneous and from the heart, like poetry or lyrics to a song. You may be someone who plans their writing, ensuring it is well thought out, taking months or even years to write, rewriting and editing until it just right, but then again, it never is, is it? This may be a play, novel or film script.

Whatever you write about, some pieces will never see the light of day, these pieces will be for your eyes only and may even be thrown out or misplaced. Other pieces may be sitting on an old laptop or desktop drive, slowly deteriorating, one day these treasures will simply be irretrievable and with great disappointment you will perhaps regret not backing them up on the cloud or hard drive. You may even have a box, full of manually written or typed manuscripts just waiting to be revisited. Or multiple ideas floating around in that creative mind of yours just waiting for you to be brave enough to jot them down.

Whatever your style of writing is, I’m going to encourage you to look at what you have, and sort these items out, put something together in a crazy yet cohesive way and self publish your writing or get it out there into the wide wonderous world of the internet. Just do it! Don’t overthink it, be brave and most of all have fun doing so. Life is too short to have all your creativity stuck in a box or sitting on a hard drive on your laptop! You are a creative, you are interesting and exciting and you should let the world see the real you.

Good Luck on your writing journey

Angela Sparks