I Want To Write...

I want to write something, but I can't put my hand on a single topic. I miss doing this. I have a new blog now, and I would like to show more dedication than I used to in the former one. Let's see how it goes. I might write in a specific direction, I might write as the wind blows, but I am going to write.

So why do I love writing? I guess it is my way of expressing my thoughts and emotions, most of which I never show externally. It is my medium of taking my thoughts and ideas and putting them down so that I and whoever else wants to could see and appreciate. I am my biggest fan. My write-ups have no poetical undertone, neither could it be accurately said to be a work of continuous prose, as much as I know. I would like to develop my own style, something unique to me - my own way. I want my articles to be as unique and intriguing as the person I am becoming (to all you haters, I must say I am surprised to see you here!)

With my style of writing, I always seek to reach an audience. More often than not, that audience is me, as I am not of general boldness to publish too much. I hope to express my thoughts with an aim to impact, to cause a rethink, to reveal an alternative, to elicit a decision to change for the better. I write to affect lives, because as a Christian, that is what I am alive to do. I am not alive for me alone, well mostly me and a few close people - I, without any desire for glory-seeking or canonization, want to reach out to people anyway I can, and writing affords me that opportunity.

I read books written by very prolific writers and I am challenged. I am challenged and motivated by their style, by their method of delivery, and even by the structure of their grammar. I am not a person with role models, but then I can't help but be intrigued by writers like John Maxwell and Ted Dekker (Ted is the man!), who use simple, non-complicated constructions to deliver some very profound knowledge. I am getting there.

I also like reading for some other reasons, minor though they are, like it makes me feel very smart, it's cool when someone (by someone, I mean a female) picks up one of my works and tells me she likes how I put it down, plus I am among very few Nigerians that knows what a blog is, let alone own one. But the main reasons are the ones that I have laid down in the preceding paragraphs. I enjoy writing, and I plan to be doing it for a while.