ABOUT WRITING

About Writing

Sometimes a person doesn't feel like doing anything, and sometimes, even though they want to do something, they can't find the strength to do it. For me, writing has sometimes been something I started with great enthusiasm, and sometimes something filled with the helplessness of wanting to write but being unable to. You want to pour out your feelings and tell your troubles in words… Then you realize that no matter what you write, you have an intensity of emotions that won't satisfy you. Worse still, as you start writing, your feelings become more mundane than you imagined, and you realize that what you feel while writing isn't what you experience in words. But still, despite everything, you write…

You want to write and express yourself, and sometimes you feel you have to. Because the possibility of conveying an emotion to someone else through your writing, and thus making them feel the same way, is one of the biggest motivations in this regard. Perhaps even just one person among the readers will change their perspective on life. This possibility alone makes it worthwhile to try 999 out of 1000 pieces of writing.

While it's highly probable that all this writing won't yield results, it's important to realize that the ability to make an impact is almost the same across all professions. Although there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world doing the same job, we only know the most famous ones. If we're particularly interested, we might know those who come after the most famous, but not the rest.

Writing is one of those fields that hundreds of thousands of people try to enter, hoping to become one of those unforgettable writers, but only a very small fraction achieve that status. To write throughout your life, knowing that your writing might not receive any attention… This is one of the greatest indicators that most writers are more courageous than those in other professions and art groups. Because writing also requires sharing one's private life. To lay these things bare before thousands of people, risking not receiving the necessary attention, or even not being loved, is truly an act of courage.

While people generally hesitate to share their private lives with many people they meet face-to-face, writers almost always share their private lives with their readers, directly or indirectly.

One of the greatest skills is being able to say a lot with few words. Sometimes, even with few words, you can have a lot you want to say. These situations make things even more difficult for the writer. No message, lots of words… Sometimes, instead of conveying a message, they want to confide, to pour out their feelings. But not the kind of conversations and everyday worries they hear from friends, but things that truly make them think and worry deeply. At the same time, they know they must be very careful in what they write. Because, once their worries are put down on paper, they won't be just their own. While this is a valid argument for all of us, writers, by presenting their worries to a reader, risk receiving reactions that will cause them to react more strongly than the indifferent responses they might receive from their friends. And that's where the real courage lies.

In our time, we've seen that there are actually more people brave enough to share their private lives than we thought. The fact that there are many options for doing this, beyond just writing, has also somewhat changed our perspective on culture and art. Regardless, writing and storytelling can be more challenging than speaking to strangers. That's the kind of world writing is; it evokes more feelings than I can express, yet it can be finished in a single page. Just like life itself…