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Writing in Your Twenties: Why You Should Invest In yourself

Writing every day has been one of the most beneficial improvements in my life

By Bryan DijkhuizenPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Writing allows you to focus on your life and the changes you are implementing. This is very important because we often do something without remembering why or its impact on us. Also, writing helps you to clarify your thoughts. Thoughts and emotions are nebulous happenings in our mind holes, but writing helps crystallize certain thoughts and arrange them logically.

Writing daily on the internet allows you to create an audience interested in what you have to say and how you can support them. This is beneficial to any company, anyone establishing a profession, or anyone who enjoys socializing with others who have common interests.

There are many approaches to developing a regular writing routine, so below are my recommendations based on my own experience.

How to get started with writing

You have to get started. You don’t even have to write 100.000 words. It doesn’t matter how many you do; what matters is that you begin. You can lengthen it until you’ve developed the habit, but for now, just get started.

Many individuals make an effort to write a couple of days per week or once a week. That is much too infrequent, and it will not become a habit in that manner. Try to write every day and make a promise to yourself.

You can keep a diary or a text folder for yourself, but I prefer blogging. Create a free account at WordPress and start writing.

What is the point of blogging? Having an audience forces you to learn in new ways and encourages you to compose daily. Even if the crowd is thin, I know it’s scary, so do it. You’ll get used to it, and you can never let anxiety deter you from doing anything incredible.

Distraction is the writer’s best mate. He is aware of its strong call and must resist the temptation to obey it. So close all that isn’t your writing instrument, like all windows, email applications, and social media, and write.

Why should you write?

Everyday life includes the printed word. Writing is, at the most simple, a means of communication. Besides, writing is an unavoidable part of everyday life. There are many reasons why you should incorporate a decent session of writing into your daily routine, even though it is just a few hundred lines. You don’t have to be an expert to enjoy the rewards of writing.

Each person’s motivation for writing is special to him or her. You put everything into what you make because it is a tightly bound thread back to yourself, something that will always be connected to you and a part of who you are. And when the job becomes a grueling toil, the artist remains compelled to keep on, trying to have anything of worth, something of quality.

The reader trusts in the writer by keeping up to date with the most recent entries, blogs, or magazines and offering critical insights with suggestions and positive feedback to help the writer refine his or her craft.

If you’ve been dreaming about writing for a while but find you’re too distracted, too busy with life, or too exhausted, you’re not alone.

Write every day to keep your written word skills sharp. The ability to speak concisely and aesthetically deteriorates with practice, much as any other talent.

Why you should develop your writing

Writing skills are an important component of communicating. Good writing skills allow you to transmit your message to a far wider audience with greater consistency and ease than face-to-face or phone conversations.

In written correspondence, proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling are important. The reader will develop an opinion of you, the author, based on both the material and the presentation, and mistakes are likely to contribute to a negative interpretation.

The good news is that writing is a talent that can be mastered in the same way. Reading your job aloud is a good way to double-check and improve it. Reading text causes you to slow down, and you can see issues in the movement that your mind would otherwise overlook.

Why education in your twenties is so important

Many individuals spend their early twenties completing their bachelor’s degrees. However, education does not necessarily imply college or school. If you choose to earn a graduate degree, attend college later in life, look at trade schools, or need online courses to supplement your busy schedule, our Education articles will help you find the best course for you.

Many readers ask if they blew their chance to attend college by not enrolling right out of high school.

You are not required to complete a four-year degree in four years. It would be best if you took your time, and your academic counselor can assist you in developing a strategy.

It’s also perfectly acceptable to miss a lesson. You will repeat lessons and try again as long as you pay for the credit hours. Didn’t you have an internship? Your resume will not suffer as badly as you believe.

Bottom line

The lesson learned is that you should always follow your passion and never give up and always stay learning because you’ll never get too old for learning new things.

Writing is not a craft that you’ll learn in a day, a week or a month, it could take years for you to become the writer you want to be, and even then, you’ll still keep educating and improving yourself.

Originally Published on Medium via Better Humans

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