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The unexpected downside of writing every day.
When I first started writing, I did it because I wanted to hold myself accountable while I tried to remain sober. I wanted to be able to look back at what I was writing and remind myself of why I was doing this in the first place.
In the midst of starting a blog and writing content to it, I realized something. I actually enjoyed writing. I loved sitting down with my laptop and being able to give my thoughts a voice. I would even think about writing while I was at work.
After a while, I wanted to have a wider range of content and a more diverse audience than my sobriety. So when I stumbled upon Medium, I started writing all kinds of content. It was starting to ignite something in me. Seeing all of the other stories inspired me.
Writing was becoming a passion
The more I wrote, the more I wanted to keep writing. What had started as a plan to write for just 15 minutes a day became an hour. An hour became several. It woke something up inside of me that hadn’t existed in two decades.
I was remembering the same feeling I had when I was younger. As a kid, I wanted to be a writer. I would write short stories and fake news articles about my cat. At the time, I was told by a teacher I couldn’t be a writer so I stopped writing. That was the worst mistake of…
