WRITING IS MY ADDICTION, WHY?

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Inspired by Lori Steward

Being a medium member since 2020 but overall on Medium since a couple years before 2020, I’ve always had the passion for writing, telling stories, poems, and venting online. It’s therapeutic on many levels to write tactfully, honestly and my unbiased feelings, and or emotions towards life.

I used to vent online all the time and speak my mind not caring who read what I say or whomever it hurt but words has a tendency to come back and bite YOU in the arse if not being mindful of those reading. Since the world has become extra sensitive and freedom of speech is not 100% freedom of speaking for the most part. We as writers have to be creative with word play to not disrupt the emotions of whatever demographic of human beings that may feel some type of way.

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I think it’s rather fun writing anyway. I may not have a degree in English or I may not be punctually or grammarly correct from time to time, but hopefully you’ll get the point. I’m a better writer now than I was years ago because of me reading the flow of how other people write and how they convey their messages. Pretty much no different than me, it’s just I may have grammar lapses here and there.

Not bad for a high school drop out. Well I got kicked out my senior year in high school. English for the most part was my favorite subject. Why? Because I was in class with several illiterate young men and women that really wasn’t trying to learn how to read, write or even put effort towards it. It’s sad and I wanted to learn more.

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So when I got this opportunity to be part of this medium community. I was like yessssss, but it’s been a very tedious, sometimes discouraging journey.

I often write to only have 1 or 2 readers and they never came back. It made me feel like I was a real shitty writer, (excuse my language). I’m a screenwriter as well and I been got humbled by Hollywood about my writing. I was once told boy you can tell a story but your writing is horrible. At that time I felt like I was a great writer but in actuality I was a boo boo trash writer. But I kept going and going.

I write poems, unorthodox to what poem structures usually are, as one seasoned poet shat on my style, but I still attained a small fan base with them understanding my meaning and the flow of my poems. You can scroll years back and see my old poems, articles, or blogs for yourself and see my growth with this writing.

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My biggest fan WAS my wife. I say was because she hardly read my writings anymore. Everything I wrote she read, shared and loved. Only until I got personal with my writings and that’s when we got into an argument, I’d write how I felt. Which bothered her a lot, and I kept writing, then I’d write in third person and she’d still get in her feelings. Then I’d write subliminally and still she’d equate the subliminal towards whatever we argued about. That sort of discouraged me from writing for a long time. Made me really want to stop writing in general because whatever I wrote back then, and sometimes now, if she decides to read any of my newest stuff, she would think it’s about us when it clearly not. We are still married going strong and hopefully by now she understand what I write is to uplift someone going through something similar, inspire and or send a valuable message to the masses.

I dug down deep inside to say fuck it, I’m writing whatever I want, because I felt lost without writing.

If you’d see my drafts right now, I have over a 100 unfinished emotional articles inspired by relationships and just life in general. I never published them because I didn’t want to go through the scrutiny of being questioned about the meaning of the topic or was it about us.

The main thing I love about medium is the publication part but I haven’t been offered to be part of anyone’s publication as of yet. That’s a goal so people can add me to their must read lists or share my content. Just as I do others.

So I’m inspired by YOU reading this, because once you read my article I’ll subscribe to you and read a few of yours. I may highlight and respond as well.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for the inspiration. What do you like about my style of writing?

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