Is writing important to you? Why or Why not?

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As a writer, is writing an important work/hobby/career to you? If it is, or even if it is not. Surely, there must be one or two reasons why writing is important to you. It's not just a matter of fact that you're just writing for your bitter existence. It's also that writing is the reason for your bitter existence or maybe, a cure to your bitter existence. However, that's my matter of fact, and what about you?

Writing is most certainly important, but why? Most people would answer that writing is important without ever knowing different reasons as to why. It's like having an empty glass of water. You can't drink it because there is no water, and that's why it "holds no water". Authors can have different opinions on why writing is important, but it is important for that opinion to hold the same value as writing.

You could say that having wrong grammar, punctuations error, and writing discrepancies when writing opinions makes you sound like a reader than a writer. Now I feel like saying, 'Oh my god! I can't believe that writing opinions can be this hard.' I swallowed my drink, enamored by the pulchritudinous morning. However, I couldn't bring any strong emotions. Therefore, like a phlegmatic individual, I wrote my own dialogue in a thread that's dull and witty.

As you can see, writing is critical to becoming a good reader. Writing is an essential job skill. Writing is the primary basis upon which one's work, learning, and intellect will be judged—in college, in the workplace, and in the community. Writing equips us with communication and thinking skills. Writing expresses who we are as people. Writing makes our thinking and learning visible and permanent. Writing fosters our ability to explain and refine our ideas to others and ourselves... or so, what education has thought us to be true.

Still, what about you? Will your answer be based on what you believe to be intuitive? Will your answer be based on what most people would certainly agree with? Is it your emotional heart that provides an answer to this question or is it your logical mind?
 
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Writing is important for me, even as a hobby, because I need an outlet for my uber-active imagination.

Plus, I don't get to spend a coin on gacha games since I got distractions away from it.

And yeah, I got sufficient reasons to stay away from dating.
 

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Somewhat important.

It gives me the illusion that I am a productive person or that I can do something decently, which is very important for my mental and emotional well-being. If I get to make friends out of it or if people enjoyed it and dropped even the slightest bits of engagement and interaction, doubly so. In the end, I'm just a lonely guy with very low self-esteem who wants more positive interactions and validation, and writing gives me an outlet with a self-filtering system for that.

It also pushed me to try to learn drawing and such, so there's that.
 

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Isn't this thread a bit redundant when we have this one?
Dunno why you're talking about redundance... :whistle:
They aren't even the same thing. When you're talking about your purpose for writing, you're talking about yourself. When you're talking about the importance of writing, you're talking about writing per se.
 

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Its very simple.

You watch some show/anime.

You see cool shit.

You want to emulate cool shit.

You start drawing.

You draw for 5 years.

You realize you eternally suck at it.

You give up.

During that time, you've developed an attention span capable to reading paragraphs of text without voluntarily going out cold.

You pick up books instead.

You realize books are a great medium to storytelling anyway.

You realize most shows/anime come from books anyway.

You realize you could MAKE your own cool shit instead of copying the peers.

You start writing.

You start getting good at it.

You realize your childhood is now ending and that the safety net of your parents' care is starting to take holes in it.

Regret not writing earlier in the past.

Keep doing so anyway because what the fuck else are you going to do.

Either love it or hate it. I know I do.
 
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Like I said, NO ONE IS SELLING THE CRACK THAT I AM INTO.

Though writing is not as important in my life, I just type away for lulz.
 
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They aren't even the same thing. When you're talking about your purpose for writing, you're talking about yourself. When you're talking about the importance of writing, you're talking about writing per se.
They can be actually and a lot of times, similar reasons.
Writing is important to me, because if I can successfully write one of those stories out that i always come up at midnight when im about to sleep, it shows me I actually have some talent in something that is worth it to pursue. Also, great de-cluttering of mind.
 
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