{"id":2796,"date":"2010-08-31T04:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T10:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2010-08-25T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T17:10:32","slug":"dave-rave-%e2%80%93-five-reasons-i-love-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/dave-rave-%e2%80%93-five-reasons-i-love-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rave \u2013 Five Reasons I Love to Write"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"daverave\"I love writing, and I always have.\u00a0 It\u2019s a place where I feel most at peace and certainly most creative.<\/p>\n

Creativity, I\u2019ve learned, is not the right of a few.<\/strong> All of us are born with it.\u00a0 The problem is, most of us don\u2019t cultivate it.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, most of us are discouraged from cultivating our creativity<\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019re led, almost from childhood, into safer endeavors.<\/p>\n

And yet the creative act is one of the most challenging and most inspiring ways to live. <\/strong> For me, my creativity is either writing, recording audio or video, some type of content that others can consume on their own time.<\/p>\n

Here are the five reasons why I love writing.\u00a0 And if you don\u2019t love writing, then you can plug in whatever creative activity you love doing most.<\/p>\n

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  1. I love writing because it captures time.<\/strong> The time I spend writing doesn\u2019t pass away.\u00a0 It\u2019s captured in the words, the paragraphs, the message, the audio book, or the YouTube video that can live for all time in the forms in which it\u2019s been captured.<\/li>\n
  2. I love writing because it knows no distance<\/strong>.\u00a0 I have sitting on my shelf, copies of my books translated into Korean and Spanish, which means my books are all over the world.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gotten emails from as far away as Canada, New Zealand, Australia, England, and Viet Nam.<\/li>\n
  3. I love writing because it demands critical thinking.<\/strong> I know without the discipline of writing, I\u2019d be lazy.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t discipline my mind and force myself to think more clearly and critically.<\/li>\n
  4. I love writing because it creates endless possibilities. <\/strong> Books go anywhere and everywhere.\u00a0 They are handed off to people who just may be the people who will open up new opportunities for me in the future.<\/li>\n
  5. I love writing because, at its best, it allows me to offer help, a handle, and hope <\/strong>to those who read it, listen to it, or watch it.\u00a0 Think.\u00a0 Those are three pretty powerful things.\u00a0 If I can help someone without regard to location or time; if I can give someone a handle on understanding either their marriage relationship, work, or life; if I can give people hope to continue praying, pursuing, and striving, then how much better does life get than that? Not much.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Will you be a creator or a consumer, a giver or a taker, someone who just lives and passes away or someone who leaves a legacy through the content you create that others can use regardless of\u00a0 where they are, when they consume it, or what the conditions may be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I love writing, and I always have.\u00a0 It\u2019s a place where I feel most at peace and certainly most creative. Creativity, I\u2019ve learned, is not the right of a few. All of us are born with it.\u00a0 The problem is, most of us don\u2019t cultivate it.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, most of us are … Continue reading “Dave Rave \u2013 Five Reasons I Love to Write”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}