What do I Enjoy Most About Writing?

The answer to this question isn’t one I’ve arrived at hastily. It would make sense that if someone deeply enjoys whatever they enjoy, they have a sense of what they enjoy about it beyond what one can sometimes convey. I had a surface-level understanding of what I enjoy about writing pretty early in life.

My understanding of this has grown and matured like a growing plant. Selecting what I enjoy most about writing is like labeling food or a view in nature as my favorite. I don’t really have one favorite because there are plentiful foods and views, and each one comes with a different experience.

I will give the best answer that I can at the present time. What I enjoy most about writing is that it conveys information, stories and inspiration from the writer to the readers.

Writing is an exchange between the person or people behind the writing and the people reading the writing. Readers give their time to writers by reading their work; they receive information, inspiration and sometimes entertainment in exchange.

However, writing is not a one-way exchange. Writers receive from readers.

As a journalist, knowing that my work informs people remains one fact that I enjoy most about my occupation. As someone who enjoys reading and writing fiction as well, there are other parts of writing that deserve highlighting.

A screenwriter writes with the hope that their stories will captivate audiences. Maybe it’s a comedy, action film or something else flowing from the screenwriter. Either way, they are writing a story that could inspire and entertain people for years to come.

Books are just as versatile as films with their wide range of genres. Some authors are historians who write to educate anyone who will simply turn the pages of the book. Some authors are novelists.

Writing has a great deal of built-in versatility. People who are paid to write and those who aren’t paid to write all have this in common: they write.

Even if someone isn’t a journalist or author, they write. Even if someone is not a writer for screens silver or small, they write.

Writing stands as a part of everyday life. Writing exists as an exchange of time.

All of the above examples are of writers who do or hope to one day share what they write with people. It’s obvious, but it should be noted that I’m not including private journals in that category.

At the same time, even private writings for oneself are exchanges of time involving oneself. A journal entry written this year may ignite different emotions or thoughts than it will five or ten years from now.

Or, maybe a journal entry written this year will pull you back to the exact memories and feelings that you had writing it when you read it years later. In either case, the journal entries are exchanges of time; they’re written now and read later.

One thing I enjoy most about writing is that it communicates.

Do you enjoy writing, and if so, what do you enjoy most about writing? Why do you enjoy writing? What kind of writing do you enjoy? The comments section waits for you.

Thank you for reading!