As people grow old, some continue on to write until old age while some completely shun writing as if it’s a burden one needs to keep away from as much as possible. By this example alone you could deduce that writing may still be a hobby even if you are a great author as long as the passion and the love for writing is there. Then how do you keep the passion to write a love letter, the fervor to churn out poetry and essays, or to still beat the deadline without having to feel that writing is a heavy burden? How do you make writing a productive exercise and still to still call writing a hobby?
Whatever the reason is, you have to ask yourself if you still have it in you and if the tides of time have not washed away the passion and the reason for that passion to write. If you could answer that positively, then you’ll always be able to view writing as a hobby, as an activity that you will always cherish to do no matter what is going on in your life. A true writer will always write because of internal reasons, whether you are a novice playwright, a successful novelist, or a child who keeps a diary.
Searching for the Reasons Why One Writes
Then how do you keep the passion to write a love letter, the fervor to churn out poetry and essays, or to still beat the deadline without having to feel that writing is a heavy burden? How do you make writing a productive exercise and still to still call writing a hobby? Maybe you view writing as a way to blow steam off on bad days, or maybe you chose to write your dreams because you want to preserve a memory of yourself, afraid that when you get older, you would somehow become this senseless, disconnected person.
Job or Hobby?
When does writing become a job then? Why then did the great poets of times past who died miserable, alone and broke continued to write until they were on their deathbed? By this example alone you could deduce that writing may still be a hobby even if you are a great author as long as the passion and the love for writing is there.
Writing is a part of everyone’s life. Every one of us has had to write an article, a letter or a composition to a loved one, at least once in our lives. As people grow old, some continue on to write until old age while some completely shun writing as if it’s a burden one needs to keep away from as much as possible.
