📝 Writer

What makes a writer?

Is anyone who writes their thoughts down a writer?

I am a reader of non-fiction, and my writing is much the same, I want to tell my story, my biopic, my memoire. I have so many stories that people like to here and never enough time or thought to tell them all, so I want to get them written down.

“Who lives, who dies, who tells your story” is a quote from the play Hamilton that echoes frequently through my head.

Writing is your chance to get your thoughts out of your head and into a place where they can be read over and over and over again by everyone. Writing is how we have passed on knowledge for millennia, starting with the world’s most popular book, the bible. The Guttenberg press made it possible to quickly make copies of the book for distribution, well more quickly than the monks that were previously transcribing it letter by letter with ornate fonts and imagery to boot.

Writing is magical from a quantum entanglement perspective because it allows you to share a copy of some of your neural pathways with the reader of the writing. With non-fiction, they can tie those pathways into their existing knowledge of the world to gain a broader understanding of how things work. They may already have some of the same pathways, and the confirmation of the new reading makes those even stronger. “I thought this, and now I’m reading someone else also thought this, so it must be true”.

The more we believe something to be true, the more it becomes knowledge inside of our head. We trust the truths we hold to be self evident.