What is "Writing" anyway?

Part creative pursuit. Part knowledge sharing medium. Part “working it out” tool. Writing can have many different reasons for escaping the author’s head and similarly countless interpretations by the consumer.

For me, writing is a way to discover what I think, to challenge an idea, and to tell stories I might not be vulnerable enough to verbalize. I don’t question the value of the practice of writing, but I do ask whether my writing is valuable to anyone else.

Can I write about a complex subject and educate a reader through facts, stories, and approachable prose? Or am I better suited to bring an audience through an imagined world by telling tales and constructing characters?

Writing is a broad categorization of a vast number of skills with innumerable motivations driving it. I wonder what makes someone who writes a bona fide “writer?” When does one assume that title? I have written many words for public consumption and others for private reflection, but I don’t see myself as a writer….yet….

So long for now.

-Felix