Write For the Story

There is one kind of writing that you failed to mention and that is Writing For the Story. Instead of writing for a specific niche or for the masses, instead of writing for acceptance, instead of writing for claps or money, instead of writing for one self, one can throw all that stuff out the window and instead write for the story.

This involves setting the ego aside, setting ALL expectations of how the writing will be received by others aside, setting aside everything you’ve been conditioned to believe constitutes good writing, and emptying the brain of all thoughts in order to become an empty vessel through which the story may come through. This involves 100% focus on capturing the story (and nothing else) and bringing that story into manifestation. The very second one considers the audience, whether others or oneself, one is no longer writing for the story.

Will writing for the story guarantee you huge audiences and millions of followers? Will it make you a billionaire? Will it bring you huge amounts of love and acceptance and adoration? Absolutely not! Just ask Vincent Van Gogh, who only sold one painting during his entire lifetime.

Is writing for the story easy? Thanks to our conditioning, no it is not. (I’m certainly not very good at it.) Is writing for the story something all writers should strive for? Of course not. It’s a personal preference. And it’s best not to do anything simply because we feel we should. (Should is a horrible, horrible debilitating word.) Is writing for the story the best form of writing? Of course not. That is simply opinion.

But it is indeed a valid form of writing; a form which, sadly, was not included in the list of forms of writing in this article. As writers we can become obsessed with pandering to our audience. It is good to know that there is another option out there. We can write for the story instead.