![]() Fear Is a Powerful Motivatorīut most writers who don’t write, or stop writing, block themselves from telling their stories out of fear. Writers there may try to touch their stories in journals, notes, or even short works, gathering seeds for when they can be later planted, or they may lie fallow, letting their stories well up until they can be told. Overactive daily lives, extreme emotional circumstances, authentically make it difficult or even impossible to write sometimes: living in the midst of a storm doesn’t allow much room for reflection- a necessity for the writer. That’s not to say that some people legitimately cannot find the time or motivation within themselves to write. In fact, many writers commonly wedge a barrier between our desire to write and our time, circumstances, and perceived or actual abilities, and sometimes the barrier (now having taken on villainously large proportions) grows into something so great, it prevents us from writing altogether. ![]() Yet despite having an awareness that stories are life-giving, a requirement for thriving and growing, that doesn’t make the act of writing easier. They shape our thoughts and memories, and even change how we live our lives,” Sadie Dingfelder “We don’t just tell stories, stories tell us. In every way, stories are the coil of human life, a currency of the highest order. Such a return keeps us alive and makes us more powerful as human beings- and as writers- and more able to share our stories with others. Stories fuel the human spirit and return us to our humanity by expanding our empathy, compassion, education, stimulation, sense of community, and overall maturation and growth, over and over again, each new rotation improving us that much more. We grow into our narratives and grow because of them, and writers, who have learned the beauty and responsibility of providing those stories to others, know we must write because our stories are what keep us all alive. Our experiences, our bodies, and our daily actions are one great evolving story punctuated by millions of smaller stories.
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