What makes you come alive?
No seriously, what makes you come alive?
Write about that.
You see, there are times when you are so compelled to write about a certain topic.
In fact, right in this moment, I literally feel so compelled to write about this very topic of “writing what matters to you”. I mean of course there are times where we have to write about topics that are important or helpful, but don’t really matter to us.
It may be because it is your full time profession as a freelance writer to write for clients, there is a trending topic that you feel you need to capitalize on, or you just simply want to help a massive amount of people with specific problems they are facing. Whatever it is.
I understand these subjects are important and don’t get me wrong you will write about them and produce super helpful articles. However, what I am saying is, don’t forget to also write about what truly matters to you, for it is what truly matters to you, what makes you come alive and what inspires you the most that will allow your writing to illuminate.
And in the process, you surely will help people along the way who share the same sentiment as you. As humans, we are all unique, but at the very same time many of us share similar experiences and interests. If you write about a certain experience or interest that you have I am sure someone, somewhere in the world has experienced exactly what you have experienced or has a deep interest in your exact same interest.
Write what matters to you.
And in so doing, write from your heart, share with us how you really feel and what you really think, because we as your readers will be able to connect with you on such a deep level and share the human experience with you.
As a byproduct of writing what matters to you, you will be helping someone far more than anyone has ever helped them in that area before in their life and ignite a fire inside them that was once a small flame slowly dwindling away. This fire of inspiration may urge them to share with others what they learned from you or even start writing what matters most to them, which would never have happened had it not been for your writing.
I know it may seem far fetched to you how a simple piece of writing would be able to have such a powerful impact but think of the books, blogs, quotes, or articles that changed your life for the better. And the movies, short films, tv shows, which changed your life for the better and which all began as a written script and transformed into spoken word.
Yes, I am hoping you are now beginning to see the power of your pen and the power of your written words. The power of your experiences, your interests, your inspirations, your passions.
Writing what matters to you, will allow you to come from a place of pure authenticity, pure joy, pure passion, pure bliss. There will be no sense of any sort of artificialness, which we so often see in mainstream media these days. It will be you in all your glory.
If you even feel just a small inkling of desire to write about a certain topic, please follow the calling, for it could very well be your calling.
