Letters by Burk #136: How Writing Affects Your Mood & Life

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Hi friends,

Writing is a labor of love.

In fact, it doesn’t really matter how good of a writer you are, or think you are, writing is one of those skills and talents that benefits a wide variety of people in so many different ways.

Writing can be a simple diary entry each day, a poem, a weekly routine, a newsletter issue, a blog post, a short story, a novel, or a scientific paper.

It’s all art.

I fell in love with writing in my teenage years. First with short stories, then poetry, and finally blogging. I was blogging when the social media wasn’t even a real thing yet, back in 2007.

Since then, I moved from German blogging to English blogging, from platform to platform, from blog to newsletter and back. I was using WordPress in 2007 and I still am in 2024.

Writing has always been my first love.

And I’ve never been one to wait for inspiration to hit me. I learned to sit down to write. To blog…