When you start school as a child, one of the first lessons you learn is how to write. You learn how to hold a pencil, how the letters look and how to write them. From that point forward you build on those fundamental skills and improve your writing, both the physical act of writing and writing as a whole. For myself, as well as many others, writing is more than something I do in school. Putting words down on paper, or typing them out, is a form of therapy for me. When I am upset, I write and it helps me sort through my problems. I also write when I am inspired and I write about anything that comes to mind.
Anyone has the ability to write. Writing is not something you need permission to do. You can write in your home, in your room or even behind closed doors. And, your writing does not have to have a purpose. It can be done for the sake of art. What you create can be meant for your eyes only or it can be meant for the world to see. That’s the beauty of it; you don’t have to get permission to create and inspire, even if you are only inspiring yourself further.
People believe that writers are only those who get paid for their submissions, or that they are those ones who scored really high on SAT's and did well in school. I am here to say that the notion isn’t true. A writer is someone who puts words down on paper for no other purpose than to create and explore the boundaries of language.
Of course, those who write a book are writers, but the person who writes poetry in their basement when everyone has gone to bed or who writes short stories about princesses and fairies between classes is a writer. Even the person who writes down lines for future songs or snip-its of thoughts throughout the day, you too are a writer. Artists come in all shapes and sizes. From one writer to another, believe in your writing! As Lucas Scott from "One Tree Hill" once told the love of his life, “Your work matters.”
