What do you enjoy most about writing?

Writing, as a high level topic of discussion, is such a fascinating thing. There are so many ways of categorizing or classifying a piece of writing that it’s almost mind boggling. From short, dry technical documentation to fantastical long form narratives. Massive compendiums filled with real world knowledge to serialized collections of short stories. Fiction, non-fiction, biographies, recipes, obituaries, and so on. Then there’s the next level deeper. Different authors have brought their writing styles, word choices and written dialects to life, and there is so much variety for people to discover.

One of the things I personally enjoy most about writing, when considering all of those things, is that anyone can find a place they feel they belong with their writing. That I can take my thoughts, put them down on paper or type them in on my phone (as I’m doing right now, laying in bed) and have the choice to share them like I do here.

I also enjoy the ability to take my imagination and give it a life outside of me, to create worlds in writing. To find new ways to describe something. Rewriting and clarifying the details.

This post is, I believe, the 308th daily prompt I have answered on my little journey to building my writing habits. Looking back on all of them, I can’t even begin to tell you just how many I’ve rewritten, whether in part or entirely. Along the way, though, I’ve found that I’m going to have good days and bad days. I’ll write short posts and long ones. That some will be serious while others are more light hearted or even comical to some degree, and I’ve come to enjoy all of that as well.

Writing is whatever we want it to be. That’s what ultimately makes it enjoyable. (At least, that’s what I want to think of it.)