How Do YOU Value Your Writing?

To be a writer is to have the ability to put pen to paper. To tell stories, one needs the ability to make one up or at least be able to make one sound plausible, whether it be verbal or on paper. But, to really get to the meat of a writer is to find out how much they value their writing.

Hmmm. Never thought about that have you?
Here's another one. How do you value yourself?
How important are you?
How important are you to yourself?
How important are you to your day?
How important are you to your community?

If your community is WARA, you are very important. As some singing group will sing, all God's creatures have a place in the choir. Here in WARA everyone has a place in the choir of voices that make up such a wonderful group. Without one of us, we are all diminished.

If you are important to your day, then it is pretty well important to keep thinking about yourself and what you need to get through the day. Have you been thinking about you?

How important you are to yourself shouldn't really need to be said, but sometimes we give so much of ourselves to others, who seem to be in more need, that we fade away from our own thoughts and become as nothing in our own lives. That was a long sentence. Please re-read and think about it. Then quit. The answer is quite simple. If you are so important to others that they rely on you, then if follows you must be important to them. Now, think about that. If you are important to them, then you have greater value. Maybe you might want to consider that a person of great value might be a little bit important to themselves!!

If you are important to yourself, which you've just proven you must be, then why aren't you putting some of the things you think are important ahead in the queue of things needing done?

Have you proven to yourself you have value?

If you have value, then it follows that the things you think are important must have value too. Like your writing. Are you treating your writing as if it has value or are you getting to it last?

Did you like this exercise in logic?

I did it and didn't like what I discovered. I discovered that I was putting my writing, something that is a part of me, last. Why would I do that? Because I saw it as not as important and immediate as other things. Well, Duh! If I am that way, then why would anyone else honor my writing time? Quick answer--they wouldn't!

By never thinking about my writing creativity's importance, I let it drift away.....

Lucky for me, I can rethink my position. Grasp the initiative. Put my rear in the seat in front of my computer and tell the world to go find themselves something important in their own activities. I found mine.