Write The Darn Thing

There’s nothing wrong with waiting, only that waiting for the perfect condition will cause you to wait forever. Remember D'banj's viral catchphrase that year?

If you're still sitting down, you're on a long thing.

In a world where quality over quantity has been preached diligently, you might think you should wait for when you have the perfect idea, perfect article topic, perfect thought, perfect vocabulary to express yourself.

At the end of the day, there’s nothing to show.

Remember chickens? Do you know how they hatch their eggs? Once a mother hen lays her eggs, she sits on them, brood upon them, warm them up, create the optimum environment they need to come alive. I think it’s called incubation.

As a writer, you’re a mother hen. Your babies need you to heat the place up for them to come alive.

Your notepad is tired of the ideas you keep scrabbling in there. It craves to see writing, sharing, publishing on your to-do list and most importantly, see it checked.

I read something from Chris Do recently. He said in the bid to produce quantity, you’ll learn how to also produce quality work. He was talking to content creators and creatives and I absolutely agree with him.

Write the article. Write the post. Write the blog. Write the script. Write the copy. Write the ad. Write the caption.

There’s no perfect moment for you to launch out as a writer. Remember my little story into writing? Let me share again.

I have always thought of myself as a writer but I wrote at my convenience not because I was lazy but because that identity hadn’t soaked in yet. But the day I finally accepted that identity, I started to write as a function of who I am. I am a writer, right? So, I should write, right?

I stopped waiting for personal experiences to write about and started paying attention to what was happening around me. I know as writers, we sometimes feel we are writing for ourselves but our primary audience is others.

I started writing as I was learning to write. I would learn how to do something better and incorporate it in my next article. As I dish out my work, I am getting better.

As I sit at my computer to write each day, I get better with articulating my thoughts. I try new things. I read. I research and then write some more.

Whatever kind of writer you are and whatever form of writing you do, get to it.

The real question here is this: Why am I not writing?

In your bid to answer that question genuinely, you might just discover that you’ve been waiting for everything to fall perfectly in place before you sit your words down on the pages of paper or blank spaces.

All I’m here to inform you is that you’ve waited enough. It’s time for you to get up, pick up your pen or computer and get to it.

Do it irrespective of how you feel. Start small. Start with the consistent idea you’ve always had.

Move on with the idea that just popped in your head as you read this.

Just write the darn thing.