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\"\"<\/a>By Collin Suttle, Student Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things,\u2026\u201d Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird<\/em><\/p>\n

For as long as I can remember, I\u2019ve heard authors talk about how hard writing is<\/strong>. I\u2019ve heard them talk about the satisfaction of progress made, or the reward of writing a story well: you put in work for fifteen years and, somewhere down the line, you have a poem or two you don\u2019t hate, or a few checks from stories you sold. But gifts are not the same things as rewards. Rewards are earned; gifts are freely given.<\/strong> And I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever heard a writer talk at length about the gifts of writing.<\/p>\n

When I read that quote by Anne Lamott, though, it put me in a new frame of mind. Have I been grateful for writing enough? Not for the things I write, but for the gifts that writing gives me even before I open a notebook?<\/p>\n

The answer is, of course, \u201cNot at all.\u201d<\/strong> So, in the interest of mindfulness, the cultivation of a thankful spirit, and list-making, here is my Top Five Gifts That Writing Gives Me, with some significant help from Anne Lamott and Bird by Bird<\/em>.<\/p>\n

1. Excuses to do cool stuff<\/h4>\n

There is nothing I love more than going into my local library to look up something weird. A few weeks back, I checked out half the section on radioactivity. (None of the books dished on X-Men-style mutations.) More recently, I had some difficulties finding books about the history of Romania. Finding books about crematorium practices and death rituals around the world have become something of an annual thing for me.<\/p>\n

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore.<\/p>\n

The world is big, and there\u2019s absolutely no reason not to see as much of it as you can, whether through books, the internet, or actual travel. If you\u2019re interested in the world outside yourself, which you must be if you\u2019re telling stories, then why not go see it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This leads to the next gift, which is\u2026<\/p>\n

2. Humility<\/h4>\n

Another [gift] is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.<\/p>\n

Writing gives you a free pass to learn about and empathize with the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the undervalued, the strangely beautiful. We live in an old and tightly-packed world, and we can only ever know the smallest bit of it. But if you want to write, then you have every reason to find out just a bit more. Widen your horizons and you\u2019ll probably write more humbly; the more voices you hear, the less impressive your own sounds in your ears<\/strong>. Which is always a good thing.<\/p>\n

And, yes, this is absolutely a gift, as the direction of character development is always a gift. What\u2019s not to celebrate about this side effect of writing that might gently nudge you to be better than you were the day before, more selfless and thoughtful towards the world around you?<\/p>\n

3. Good work<\/h4>\n

That thing you had to force yourself to do\u2014the actual act of writing\u2014turns out to be the best part. It\u2019s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. (xxvi)<\/p>\n

One of the best things about finishing my last novel was that the act of writing\u2014the harmony of mental and physical concentration\u2014became good work, in the most spiritually invigorating way.<\/p>\n

Even when I knew I wasn\u2019t writing a polished, high-quality draft, I still liked doing the work, because I was writing anyway. I was working at something that I cared about.<\/strong> That\u2019s good work, and the opportunity to do good work is a gift.<\/p>\n

4. A place in the Grand Scheme<\/h4>\n

In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where you can build your nest and say, \u201cThis is my niche, this is where I live now, this is where I belong.\u201d And the niche may be small and dark, but at last you will finally know what you are doing.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll never be able to know how long your words last<\/strong>, how many people\u2019s lives you touch with the narratives inside your brain. Maybe you\u2019ll see hundreds of people cheer for you at a major convention; maybe you\u2019ll have a five-star review on Goodreads claiming your poetry changed the reader\u2019s life. Or maybe not.<\/p>\n

But knowing the grand sum of your reach is, I\u2019m relieved to say, not necessary. It\u2019d be nice (if it were possible!), but, at your core, you don\u2019t write to know you made a difference<\/strong>. You write because you do. You write because you\u2019re supposed to, and maybe the only person you\u2019ll ever knowingly impact is yourself. That\u2019s fine; that\u2019s one whole person. Anything beyond that, as T.S. Eliot says, \u201cis not our business.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. Fun<\/h4>\n

Writing, for me, is like a jigsaw puzzle. And I love jigsaw puzzles. With writing, not only do I get to worry over all the pieces fitting together just so, I get to choose the picture myself<\/strong>\u2014even color in the more unique portions!<\/p>\n

I love prewriting. I love the brainstorming, picking at some knotty problem until it slowly unravels to reveal something fantastic, exciting, intriguing, disturbing, heartbreaking\u2014in other words, something fun. And, as mentioned, I love writing, too, putting all my theoretical formulas and structures into practice, letting the characters gasp awake and promptly ruin all my plans by making them better. I even love editing: paper freshly warm from the printer, the aroma of ink, the pens and notebooks and endless tinkering. It\u2019s the heady feeling of being better at storytelling than the past version of myself<\/strong>, aka the slob who produced the literary equivalent of a greasy old pizza box, which I am now reworking with spit and panache into the Mona Lisa. It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s not everybody\u2019s type of fun, but it\u2019s mine. And having good fun is one of the best gifts of all.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h4>\n

There are bountiful reasons to work hard at storytelling, to know that good writing doesn\u2019t come easy or soon<\/strong>, to remember that your truest, most lasting motivations are easily obscured by the prospect of fame or intellectual vanity or maybe impressing the cute guy ahead of you in the Starbucks line. There are plenty of reasons to remember that writing is hard, and even to be grateful for the hurdles to jump.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s hard in and of itself. It\u2019s nice to remind ourselves, once in a while, of the sweet, easy things that writing gives us, as it graciously ignores our motivations du jour<\/em>, our issues with time commitment, and the fact that we want to talk about writing more than we want to sit in the chair and write.<\/p>\n

Writing can be nice without caveat.<\/strong> We, as our own little subculture, might rethink our relentless onslaught of doom and warnings, and embrace a more easygoing attitude instead. Think of what we have in writing, and write with gratitude in mind!<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

What gifts have you received from the act of writing?<\/em><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>About Collin<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m an English graduate from Mobile, Alabama, whose senior thesis was the establishment of a literary journal for the university. (It\u2019s now been taken over by the current senior year and I\u2019m very proud.) When not writing, preparing to write, or complaining about writing, I like to read, crochet, listen to DnD podcasts, and take long walks in the woods. I\u2019m now a page at the local library, bemoaning the fact that pages aren\u2019t allowed to reserve books for themselves while working. My blog, with reviews and biweekly storytelling posts, can be found at sympatheticmagicblog.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Please note that links on\u00a0The One Year Adventure Novel<\/em>\u00a0Blog to other websites and blogs do not constitute an official endorsement. We are not intimately familiar with all the writing and opinions contained in outside links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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