Writing is easy?
I came across a post that said writing is easy: just tell people what happened. It made me pause and reflect on what is, at best, an over-simplification. I felt the need to share my own thoughts on the matter.
Its like comparing a child's art scrawling to an old master.
Facts tell you what happened.
Emotion makes you feel it. Without feeling, there’s no connection—and without connection, there’s no story that truly matters.
Yes, writing conveys what happened, but a skilled writer makes you breathe it. That distinction is what turns a story from mere information into an experience that is personal, deep, and worth your time, your tears, and your heart.
The best stories change us. They haunt us, make us return again and again to relive them—not because of a sum of facts, but because of how they touched us and wove themselves into the very fabric of our lives. They are artwork in word format.
