TO BE A WRITER… (7)

Funny how I started this series as something simple, and ended up unravelling parts of me, and what I feel about writing.

This series has made me realise something, being a writer is not just about writing, it is about everything that happens before the writing even begins. It is about the becoming. 

In this series, we've gone over; 

To be a writer is to bleed on paper, yes, but it is also to heal on paper. It is to take what could have destroyed you and turn it into something that makes sense, something that speaks, something that lives. It is to pour your anger into words instead of into people, to turn your pain into poetry, and your confusion into clarity.

To be a writer is also to be misunderstood. People assume writing is writing, that a writer can write anything, anytime, anyhow, but the truth is that writing has niches, styles, voices, and growth. And the real beauty is not in sounding like everyone else, but in sounding like yourself, even when you are trying something new.

To be a writer is to live differently. To move through life collecting moments, storing emotions, noticing details, and seeing content in everything, even the most mundane things. It is to live with a mind that never truly switches off, because even when you are not writing, you are still gathering.

And above all, to be a writer is to become. Because writing does not start with steps, it starts with identity. You become the kind of person that words flow from, and then writing becomes inevitable.

So dearest reader, to be a writer is to see, to feel, to become, and to express. It is to translate life into words, and leave pieces of yourself in places you may never physically reach.

And maybe that is what makes it beautiful.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.