Write every day – even if not a writer.
WRITE…
Not because it’s easy, but because the world needs your stories.
Not because you always love the process, but because the process helps you love life.
Not because you feel worthy, but because turning life into art makes it all worth it.
Your voice is all you really have.
– andrea balt
Dear Creator
In a decade of working with thousands of creators around the world, I’ve seen so many lives transformed and recreated from the inside out through the power of words and creative self-expression:
Stories changed, lives improved, people set free, new passions fueled or old ones reignited, self-worth and confidence restored, adventures started, freedom found, new businesses and lifestyles created… and kindred hearts from all over the world, connecting through the art and magic of the written word.
I’ve even seen romantic connections, partnerships and families formed through our writing communities, united by a common passion for the written word and creative self-expression.
Writing can be a beautiful, direct pathway into another person’s heart.
If you’ve been wanting to take creative action but you are feeling saturated, stuck, depleted, fearful, depressed or unmotivated and need a reason to start feeling your creative pulse again…
I’d like to share with you how creative writing can help + heal + kickstart your transformation while keeping you sane in a world that is losing its mind.
To show you how WRITING EVERY DAY – even a minimum of 250 words (or half a page) – can significantly heal, change and improve your life, even if you are not or don’t intend to call yourself a writer.
To tell you why you should constantly improve your writing, practice it and turn it into a daily habit, whether you are or not a writer by profession.
And to not let this short human experience pass you by with your story untold, your dream still unlived, your creativity still waiting to be expressed and applied.
Creative writing is essentially the art of being present. A self-creation, self-love and self-awareness practice.
If you aren’t doing it regularly as part of your mental care routine – in any way shape or form that you are feeling inspired to try – you are missing out.
I tell you why + how below👇🏼
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HOW CAN CREATIVE WRITING CHANGE + SAVE + HEAL YOUR LIFE?
… Even if writing is not your main hobby, job, project or talent.
… Even if you don’t call yourself writer.
… Even if you don’t want to share your words with the world.
WRITING IS THE BACKBONE OF ALL COMMUNICATION ✍🏼
In our virtual reality, writing is no longer just for writers by profession — as it used to be in the past. Writing is now the art of everyone who is or wants to be a writer by vocation.
Writing has now become the backbone of most human interaction — other than our direct physical exchanges. It’s the most basic and indispensable communication tool to get anything across, through any medium.
Even when it accompanies other media, such as videos or photography, writing is the first layer, the NUMBER 1 global language that every creator aspiring to communicate an idea with the world effectively, through any kind of media, should be able to master — at least to some extent.
Whether you are a writer, a content creator or just a passionate word lover; a communicator of any kind, a blogger, editor, filmmaker, healer; an entrepreneur or any other type of storyteller or creative troublemaker…
…you need to write (preferably well) in order to communicate your ideas with the world.
Writing has now become so necessary, so non-negotiable to our self-expression, so deeply embedded in our daily communication that your world will literally shrink or expand in proportion to how proficient you become at expressing yourself through words.
Not to mention all the life-changing ways in which writing helps your personal growth and expansion — see the TOP 5 below.
Even if what you do for a living has nothing to do with writing, you still need to learn how to effectively and creatively communicate — in all your circles and professional interactions — about who you are and what you do.
In addition to giving you professional and creative wings, below are 5 more ways in which CREATIVE WRITING can help and set you free — no matter where you are on this journey — even if you never share your writing with anyone:
*I’m emphasizing CREATIVE WRITING more than just “any kind of writing” because your creativity communicated through the written word is one of the most powerful means for universal self-expression — one of the main ways in which you can connect with your higher self and become a human channel for wisdom, love and empowerment.
WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE EVERY SINGLE DAY OF YOUR LIFE…
EVEN IF NOT A WRITER
I recommend at least 250 words – or half a page.
Ideally committing to 500 – one full page.
Before you start complaining about how little time you have, let me remind you that if you have 15 minutes a day to scroll through strangers’ posts on social media that don’t add any real value to your life, or text people on whatsapp…
YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO INVEST 250 WORDS IN YOUR CREATIVITY! 👊🏼
This isn’t about time, it’s about priorities.
Let me remind you how even a few paragraphs of creative writing or freestyle journaling a day can improve the quality of your life and keep the doctor away.
If you’ve been feeling uninspired, unproductive or creatively stuck lately – here are the the top 5 ways writing can improve, heal and change your life, on a personal level, no matter what you do for a living:
1. CREATIVE WRITING MAKES YOU SELF-AWARE
It helps you GET to KNOW YOURSELF as both the object and the subject of your life. You are a multi-dimensional, complex being.
In Walt Whitman’s words, “I [You] contain multitudes.”
Writing is a mirror reflecting back at you all of your multitudes and multiplicity, your deeper truth, your desires, your blind spots.
Self-inquiry through writing helps you discover aspects of your character and motivation, personality and life experiences that made you who you are today.
2. CREATIVE WRITING HEALS YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT
It helps you cleanse your mind from its self-made chaos, and clear negative energy stuck in your body.
The residue of unfulfilled emotions and experiences, the trauma that you haven’t had a chance to heal or even process yet — writing has the power to alchemize your heart into art, to recycle your heart into more reasons to keep loving.
Writing holds space so you can let go of all the stories that no longer align with the person you are becoming, to release your inner demons and undigested heartache, your disappointments and your losses, and use the fires of life to empower you vs. destroy you.
3. CREATIVE WRITING FREES, FUELS & EXERCISES YOUR IMAGINATION
Your imagination is your single GREATEST TOOL FOR CREATING REALITY. Who you are today is a result of who you assume and imagine yourself to be – for months and years.
Writing gives you a new blank page, a second chance to transform your identity and write your story of aliveness, your inner script, your life — not from what hasn’t worked so far, but from what could, what might, what will… if YOU are willing.
There is a certain freedom you allow yourself on paper (or screen) that you are too afraid at first to take in “real” life. Mostly, the freedom to dream and the freedom to make mistakes.
Since it’s just “art,” or “words” at first, writing allows you more of this freedom, this space of play, this make-believe, imaginary world-of-self that leads you to a truer, more creative reality.
Imagination is the gateway of creation, the space of possibility, the god-self that births new life out of darkness. By freeing your imagination, writing makes THE WHOLE OF YOU possible.
4. CREATIVE WRITING IMPROVES YOUR CRITICAL THINKING & COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Creative Writing is the only art that uses both sides of the brain equally: the intellectual, analytical and logical LEFT side, combined with the intuitive, the soulful and creative RIGHT.
You can’t separate thought from language. Your language affects and determines your thoughts, which in turn create your reality.
As such, the limits of your language — and overall communication — become the limits of your thinking + feeling, and thus the limits of your world.
The better you express yourself, the richer, deeper, truer and more filled with possibilities your human experience becomes.
5. CREATIVE WRITING HELPS YOU TAKE CREATIVE ACTION
Writing is the beginning of doing. Writing is the first step, the safest, quickest creative action you can take to turn any idea into reality.
In writing about life, you state what you desire and in doing so you automatically start creating it. You begin your transformation by declaring yourself to be that which you desire to be, through the written word.
In fact, one of the most powerful manifestation techniques – referred to as SCRIPTING – consists in writing about what you want to experience or receive from life as if it had already happened.
This reinforces the desired reality in your subconscious which will then start being reproduced and reflected in your 3D experience.
Writing leaves the first footsteps that you will later follow through your actions and experiences, your habits and your lifestyle, and through it all, your world that started with a word.
If you’ve read this far down, consider this a sign that you should start writing, restart your practice if you’ve been putting it off, or commit to your writing in a deeper way.
Life is short.
Writing is a way to love it, create it, expand it and live it to the fullest.
Writing is a way to live forever – in the hearts of those who receive your words.
Now go write something.
Something – even a few lines – is better than nothing.
Something the only way to everything.
xx
Andrea
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