... is about getting started with the writing process. In the beginning, there lacks a spark, an ignition, a drive to begin writing. Thoughts flow thorugh your mind as you hesistate to put down the first few words. But as more and more content gets put down, the mind becomes more willing to start expressing whatever needs expressing. It isn't a rant about what is coming out of one's mouth and mind when speaking or wriitng, its the continious and ever-growing movtivation to keep up the momentum. The desire to preserve and outperform the quality of writing in the same setting becomes ever most important because in this world, there are always interruptions. Interruptions that cease the writing process. Sure, you could continue whenever you are available, but the initial momentum and fluidity of ideas has lost its first spark. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why we hesistate so much when starting to put pen to paper. The timing of when to write and when not to write becomes a balancing act because on one end, you could be interrupted if you start too late, but on the other end, if you hesitate too much, one might be missing essential content that might have been more brilliant in your mind that it could be on paper. I guess we will never know without seeing ourselves write in another alternate universe, if that is, such and such exists.
Writing may seem challenging at first, but when you push or force yourself to begin without reason and set a realisitc target for your own needs, anything you desire to write can be achieved and your writing will ignite the dynamite within you. The key thing about starting to write is that you get to continue the writing from where you left off as a checkpoint. Without a beginning, there is no middle, and without a middle, there is no end. As long as you keep writing without reason, something should eventually come out. It doesn't need to be brilliant or exceptional. It just needs you and your ability to start the process and by the end of the process you can claim yourself to be a writer because you did the work and you gave yourself hope. Giving yourself such a strong and powerful feeling and feat would eventually become the reason that replaces the hesitation and reason not to write in the first place. This can be a positive reinforcement cycle where your writing enocurages you to write more and more, or your inactivity in writing causes you to doubt your skills and capabilites to resume the wriitng process. Writing cannot be refined if you don't do it often, and if one does not do so often, there is little incentive to write.
Break the cycle of hesitation and fear of interruption and by doing so you progress yourself no matter how seemingly small and insignificant the initial experience is. So, get out there and start typing a word, then a sentence, then a paragraph, then a written piece of greater scale. Even though the quantity grows, so does your confidence and willingess to improve the quality of your prose and piece. This is the same as aiming to read one page a day from any book and if you surpass that goal, give youself another realistic one you can achieve. If you pass the next goal, continue on and on and break down the reading and/or writing task into many small parts.
We shouldn't think of writing has a long and tedious process by starting from an insignificant checkpoint, but we should rather slice the process into narrower, smaller, and more manageable forms that we can digest one by one. The entire process from the eye of a beginner might seem challenging, but if writing becomes a routine and frequent hobby, then the hardest thing about writing is to stop. But who wants that?
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