Six Reasons Why You Should Write For Yourself

Writing is an art. It may be a hobby to some, a profession to some, or an ardent source of joy and passion to some.

With digital marketing, SEO and content-based writing on the boom, the art of writing is being reduced to just another marketing strategy aimed at getting more website clicks. Most of the incoherent, bland content is ranked higher in the search engines. Not because they are good writing, but good SEO.

Filling your content with a lot of haywire keywords for better marketing will only cover your talent with a sheath of dust.

Art cannot be quantified. It cannot be rated on the parameters of a business policy. It is meant to echo your emotions and pacify your soul. Doing it for someone else, especially a product-driven market will only make you feel empty.

Writing places no limits. It does not confine you to express yourself in short or long sentences. You can be as simple or as verbose as you like. You can write terse stories or long heavily punctuated essays. No word limit should deter you from being articulate in the way you want. You can be free as long as you write for yourself.

It is important to decide who you want to please in the end, the audience or yourself. The audience are already standing amidst a storm of information being bombarded at them every millionth of a second. They don’t want to read what you like. They are not even concerned about their own likes or dislikes anymore. They simply want to be engaged in something that keeps them awake at midnight, scrolling through their newsfeeds relentlessly.

Have you ever wondered why the books of authors like William Shakespeare, Jane Eyre, Harper Lee, Emily Bronte, and Charles Dickens are sitting proudly on everyone’s bookshelves even today? Why do they leave us in awe of great literature every time we read them? Because they were not hankering after others’ approval. They wrote what they felt, what they wanted to. They didn’t try to ‘clean’ their writing based on the keywords in high demand.

Likes and dislikes, trends and tweets have stolen the very essence of writing. Anyone is writing anything just for the sake of it. Needless to say, such writing is only concerned with the virtual status people want to uphold on social media. And hardly any part of it is associated with pure art.

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