How to not hate writing

I hated writing as a kid in school. I was much more of a math and science guy and english was easily my worst subject. Throughout my entire collegiate career, writing an essay was the worst of all homework assignments — I never understood kids who liked writing. It wasn’t until my upper level business classes when I started to somewhat tolerate writing. I always attributed that to the fact that business writing is succinct and to the point rather than the use of fluff words to make things sound better for an essay.

I started this blog last year partly so I could improve my writing and document my thoughts. It’s been a largely mixed bag of pleasure. Some days I feel like writing flows naturally and I’m enjoying putting my thoughts to paper. Other days I feel like I’m just reaching to get to the end of this post so I can move onto my next task. I guess I never really thought too much about what drove those emotions, good or bad, whenever I was writing.

I’m not sure if I should feel embarrassed that I’m finally realizing this now or relieved, but after 30 years of learning about myself, I finally realized the secret formula on how to not hate writing. Write about things you want to write about.

I never truly hated writing. I just hated writing about shit I don’t care about like random essay prompts given to me in high school.

I don’t like business writing because it’s succinct. I like business writing because I like writing about business.

Writing on my blog is a mixed bag of pleasure and pain because I force myself to write about something I have no interest in. It’s those times where I get excited to talk about something where things flow naturally.

With my new found revelation, perhaps I can finally say I truly love writing sooner than later. More on that soon.