Oct 10, 2021
Why You Should Write Even If You Think It Won’t Make Any Difference
The magic of writing
The time passes quickly. There’s no ticking clock. No way to judge one minute — or one second — from another. There’s only silence in the outer world.
But words, ideas and thoughts in the inner world appear on the screen at the sporadic tapping. The only sound. The click of keys on the keyboard.
A Moment’s Influence
As Joshua Malin says, when you write, “you should be informed of the end goal, but let the moment influence your work.”
In other words, let the flow of time and space have it’s way with you. Let the flow of magic fill the silence around you so much that even you are surprised, even amazed, at what you’ve written.
This magic of writing has long been known for its capacity to work miracles. For one never really knows how a piece of writing will turn out beforehand.
No matter how much you outline or plot the path of your piece, it always seems to have a way of changing directions from what you expected.
Just like no matter how much you pray for its acceptance by the world, no one ever really knows its true destiny. Thus, you may think that it doesn’t matter if I write or not. You may think that it doesn’t matter what you say or don’t say. You may think it doesn’t matter what you do or don’t do.
Let the World Judge
But the truth is, you just have to let the world settle the matter. Put it out there and let nature or God or the universe steer the course. Let the world judge the value of your work.
Some say that’s a hell of a way to live your life. But it’s so heavenly to even think about the rewards when God is pleased with what you have done and bestows favor upon you.
For that is what you are actually praying for. That is what you have pinned all your hopes on. And that is what you’ve worked so hard for.
For sometimes the words flow like a mountain stream in spring. And at other times, it’s like pumping to get water from an underground river. You have to pump long and hard just to get those first few crystal-clear life-saving drops.
But once the flow starts, it flows fast, free, and easy. If you keep pumping. If your keep the flow going.
Capturimg the Essence
But you have to have something to put those free flowing drops in. You have to have a story or a theme or a destination for that flow.
Then no matter how hard or how easy the flow, you’ll have captured that life-saving essence.
In Malin’s words, you “capture serendipity with your pen” (or those keyboard strokes).
You let the winds of time and space move your fingers as God wills them to move. For as Malin also says, “you want the kind of freedom that allows for something you hadn’t even imagined to happen.”
And usually it results in your growth as a writer, as a person, as a human being living in a complex world who sees something in a new way.
That Piercing Glimpse
Just so you can help othesrs see through your eyes that piercing glimpse that no one but you has probably ever seen before.
No one has seen things from the advantage of your personal angle. Thus, in a few moments of time, opportunity is born. The opportunity for lives to be changed. The opportunity for better understanding. The opportunity to see from multiple viewpoints.
All because you are a writer.
And because you write, other people have the chance to see things differently. Others have the chance to mature and grow in ways that they never knew were even possible.
The Influence of Creativity
Because others are influenced by the MAGIC of a moment. Others are moved by a moment’s attention getting influence of creativity.
That’s the magic. The magic of a moment in your life. The magic gift you bestow upon the world from a moment of creativity.
The magic of a moment’s activity gifted by intentional choice.
Your choice. Your intention to write. Your intention to gift the world with the essence of who you really are.
A word magician making her own magic appear before the eyes of those who are seeking the fascinations of the world.
Your Choice to Serve
For you are writing not merely for your own amusement. But for her. For that reader who is seeking the magic. That reader who needs that magic like you need to offer it.
You are writing to serve the very person who will truly appreciate your offering the most. And even if it’s just one person, one lone soul who hears that clicking of your keys in her heart, you’ve made a connection that matters.
Thus, your writing matters. It matters that you decided to write … even though you didn’t think that it would make any difference at all.
