If writing is lonely..

I am yet to discover why writing could be lonely. Why do those before us say so? What extreme emotions have they felt?

What does a writer does when he/she writes? What are a writer’s emotions? How lonely will a writer be?

Even before I started making something out of writing I already didn’t find any support from the most important person who should be supporting me. But I don’t believe that that is the thing that will make a writer lonely. You may also have a very supportive family but if they are no writers themselves, then they may not be able to understand everything that you are feeling and going through.

But even if another writer will indeed feel your joy, pain and glory, they will still be out when you are writing your thing. The best they could offer maybe advices and sharings of their experiences but in the end it will be just you who is writing.

I am already a loner so that may not be a problem. Maybe. I don’t know. But it’s also not about being a loner or not a loner. At some point, your being a loner will take a toll on your emotions. No one is an island. So they say.

Personally, I do not know if beyond writing here, I will be furthering my writing endeavors.

Even so, it will not hurt if we observe certain measures in order to keep up with the emotional requirement of writing just in case we decide further our writing career. It goes without saying that we should keep ourselves strong. We should be continuing our readings and learnings regarding the writing life.

So far I have started reading a book regarding advice on writing. There are still many points that I wish to understand and no doubt I still have a long way to go. Maybe, I just arrived at the opening of this endeavor. Nowhere near the heart of this career. Just glad that I could at least earn something out of writing and that is a big thing to be grateful for.

As I have already pointed out, writing is lonely because no matter how much support our family gives us, we are still the one to finish what we are writing.

On a brighter note, writing is exciting. Maybe you share my sentiment that we feel an inexplicable feeling when we think about the journey on writing.

Writing is arduous. Even this very article, I’m pained to edit it. Once I edit this, I may just as well remove everything and I wouldn’t have written anything at all. I just read back and I said, what was I saying? What is my direction initially? I seem to have been lost. I seem now to be out of line of my original direction.

An additional pain for me is I do not know what topic to write about. I recall initially that with my first post here that I will be writing on anything about anything. But sometimes it’s so vague that I am lost. It just comes as I decide to type on my device but what if this is to be continued in the long run?

But the advantage of this process is we get to question ourselves with a lot of things and we discover our potentials. At first we feel lost but eventually, if we keep at it, we’ll be found.

Those questionings will be our added preparations that we will consider in order to make writing bearable, if it is indeed lonely. I do not wish to present writing as some melancholy journey but there are just some realities that we have to accept.

There are times that I just forget everything that I have learned so far leaving. It’s as if I lost all of it. The obvious solution therefore is to keep a diary about our learnings. Those that we shouldn’t forget. Advices that we have to review from time to time to keep us going.

Then there also is this discipline that I need to learn. It’s like a drag keeping a journal about everything. But I have to train myself to be disciplined. Facts should be kept in check to avoid frustrations. There are so many writers out there whom we could read in order to learn. We should then keep our hearts open in order to catch as much as we can.

I find joy in thinking that writing is lonely. If that will be, I can just find solace in my own loneliness. I am my joy, my helper and my comfort. No, that’s quite wrong. He is my joy, my helper and my comfort. With Him in me, I will be able to bear the loneliness of writing.