Just from reading the title of this article, most of you should already know what I mean. Being a writer should be everything to you, and it should be what makes you whole at the end of the day. It suffocates your brain, and it sends you on an imagination roller coaster. From the time you get up, to the time you go to sleep, there was probably hundreds of things you wanted to write about. Your descriptive prowess is probably on a level of enlightenment, but you probably have tons of trouble defining yourself to other people. Being a writer is a gift from the heavens, but a deadly curse that seems to trap you at all costs.

You want to tell the world about anything and everything, but you get stuck just on the title of what you are writing. You can't quite figure out who you want to write to, and you have a million things you might want to write about. Also, you spend hours on what words might spice up what you put into a paper or the fact that the same words could kill your entire article. When you finally think you have written the paper of the gods, something seems off, and you might end up scraping your entire work of art.

There were some days that I have finished papers that have called for six pages easily, but your soul couldn't find anything to love about it. So, you throw it all away just to start from the beginning again, even though what you had in the first place could probably please your teachers or readers. Being a writer is about the world enjoying what you write, but it's also putting your own soul on the line, and if your inner self isn't happy, then your writing is probably suffering just as much as you.

Your paper and pencil are breathing entities that you share your body, mind and soul with. Taking away writing will surely kill you (figuratively), because death would be far greater than never writing again. Even now as we speak, I struggle through the words I want to get across to my readers, but I can't quite get them to come out of my mind. Your brain thinks of thousands of things to write down, and you could easily go sailing off topic onto something else you might want to write more. One second you could be writing about the lovely weather and end up on a book you've been wanting write for months now; but in the corner one of your fictional characters is probably shaking their head at how indecisive you are.

We could probably agree that you just are not one person, but instead multiple people and personalities all at once. Writing multiple stories and topics makes you act out how your fictional characters will come alive and how they will conduct themselves in their fictional societies. Actors might take on another persona for their next role, but a writer is all of their personas in one. You might be in a nonfiction world, but being a true writer helps you soar free with the wings of fiction.