Thursday, January 17, 2008

Why Do We Write?

Writing has been around for thousands of years. The Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians and Egyptians all wrote. One of the earliest forms of writing was cuniform, a pictographic writing system used by many languages over several empires in ancient Mesopotamia and Persia.

We write because we have a need to communicate. It is said that;

“We read to be influenced by others and we write to influence others.”

I would add that we write to make our thoughts and ideas available to others. They are stored for anyone who wants access to them. As a friend noted:

“We write to communicate with others.”

We also read to increase our intake of thoughts and ideas. The ideas that we take in increases the amount of ideas and thoughts that we create.

Even re-reading our ideas from the past can stimulate new thoughts and ideas. Because of new experiences and ideas between the time our thoughts and ideas were originally written down and the present, we think about past ideas in a very different way. This is what journaling can do for us.

Journaling is one way of recording your thoughts and ideas on a regular basis. Typically, journaling is done in a fancy notebook, called a journal. I encourage everyone to journal as a way of expanding your mind and recording an idea that might just be the next one in the chain of a major breakthrough for the world.

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Sincerely,
H. Court Young
Geologist, author & publisher
Promoting awareness through the written word
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