When the Writer...Stops Writing

What happens when the writer stops writing? Does the world fall off it's axis? Do World Wars threaten our boarders, and women and children die of starvation? Do Men die? Do skies fall apart?

When the Writer stops Writing, nothing happens. The world continues on with maybe a dull ache in it's side. Because you know what? There are countless writers out there with abilities just like ours. The ability to make a person feel through words, and cry through pages. But when a writer puts down their pens, stops typing-when you forfeit your passion, the world doesn't weep- you do. Because a writer writes to touch their audience, but a writer also writes for themselves.

I do not believe it in my heart that a writer's journey did not come from shortcomings, or misguides-problems. Some say that this is a pessimistic outlook, but I have met too many writers who've been pushed to the profession or the passion by wrong doings. Not to say that they're unhappy, or that they live a terrible life. One could life happily and still be sad. What I am saying, though, is that a writer is not sprouted out of nothing. Something happened that made you want to write.

So, when you decide to stop, it is you who feel the pain more than anyone else. Because creating literature has a way of instilling itself into you heart so as to regard it as your actual heart rather than just a strong held passion. When a writer stops writing it's as if a bird decides to stop flying or dog deciding to perch itself on steps and quit barking.

It's like losing yourself. And I lost myself for a while in this self-doubt. Filling out applications for colleges, choosing to major in English creative writing- I doubted if I was good enough, and for a writer, or any artist in fact, self- doubt is the worst disease you can have.

Writers, if you stop writing, it is ok. As long as you are ok. Writers, if you stop writing and you feel like a apart of you is ripped away, it is not ok. Talk to someone. Clear your head. Take some time. Reevaluate yourself.

A Writer not Writing is one of the worst things to happen.

-XTBWilliams

My post perhaps wasn't very bright, or filled with answers but I stopped writing and I needed to think, and reevaluate. My prescribe medicine, was writing about my evaluation. I have already began writing again.