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Practical Benefits of Creative Writing if You Need Some Motivation
Writing stories isn’t just a hobby. It’s a practice that sharpens so many skills. You’ll use these skills all your life, so write that silly idea and let’s start refining these talents that come from our work:
(Psst—this is where you should open that copy of your resume if you’re also applying for jobs!)
- Communication: You know how to use words to convey complex and simple ideas.
- Emotional identification (for personal benefit, not so much standard careers): You’d be surprised how many people can’t name or describe their emotions, much less make them something others can feel.
- Thematic analyzation: You can find or create a common thread between wildly different people.
- Community building: You can bring people together by making them feel things deeply.
- Perspective shaping: You make others try on new perspectives through your characters and their challenge, which also points back to your communication skills.
- Encouragement: You know how to make other people dream through your work.
- Empathy: You remind readers they aren’t alone in their experiences—we are all going through different versions of pain together.
- Typing: Let’s be real, every boss will think you’re amazing if you can type with more than two fingers at a time (or with two fingers really fast!).
- Time management: You’re always finding ways to fit your writing into your schedule, even if it’s only once a month.
- Commitment: because that 100,000-word fanfic won’t just appear on paper because you daydreamed about it.
- Self-reliance: When you set a goal to write a story, you (mostly) finish it. All on your own!
- A willingness to learn: Your editing and revising work keeps you open to growth opportunities, which is essential to being a good person/team member/employee.
- Organization: Those folders with all your story ideas, character outlines, and plot arcs? That’s a skill, my friend.
- Creativity: You’re in touch with your creative instincts, which brings vision to projects and team efforts that produce better results