Why Write? To Hide Truth Away in Your Heart
If you write, or desire to write, you’ve likely faced the question, “Why write?” This question can become even more pressing when our work goes primarily unseen. For most of us, we’re clacking away at the keyboard for just a handful of blog readers, newsletter subscribers, or social media followers at the most—and perhaps some of our work goes completely unread by others at all in the form of journaling or an unpublished manuscript. On days when writing is particularly hard or the stats are especially low, we may pose that question with a great sigh. Why bother to write at all?
What if we didn’t write for the sake of the reader, but rather for ourselves? How would this change our perspective? What if writing could simply be to hide truth away in our minds and souls?
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