Writer Statement

Why do people write? 

I believe we write to analyze. 

Why it is hard and stressful to write academic papers and easy to scribble something down in your diary? 

The pressure. The moment you have to write not about yourself, there is a pressure to do it right. You start questioning whether you understand it properly. 

At school, we learn the opinions of people with authority. We are taught that is how we are supposed to perceive everything. My generation is known for using technology to write and having issues with putting our thoughts together. It is not because we don’t know how to write. But because we don’t know whether our thoughts are correct according to the opinions of people who died centuries ago. 

Isn’t it silly? 

We read because we are seeking new perspectives. We all have our own stories. However, it is harder to accept the fact that we analyze things differently. Even in mathematics, the most precise science, there are various approaches to solve the same issue. And it is the same with literature. We can read about the same event and be curious about how others see it. 

Recently people have been afraid to express how they see the world since it might not align with how someone before us did that. There are so many rules, limitations, and expectations that it makes you hate writing. 

But we need to write. That is how we analyze - by putting our thoughts, ideas, and feelings on paper. We go through the deepest parts of our minds to understand what we feel and why. Isn’t that the point?

 Writing is not simply about asking questions and answering them ourselves. It is about the process of getting to those answers. I believe we should stop pushing ourselves to use the same patterns and methods for that process. That is how we stagnate and stop creating. Worse, stop writing.