Why Writing is easy for some?
Writing is hard for some and easy for others. The difference lies not in the words they use or the sentences they construct. Writing is often hard for those who don’t know how to channel their thinking. Too many thoughts at once can ruin the chain of thought required to write a logical piece.
People who are anxious often jump from one thought to another, thinking about them all at once. When every thought races through your mind in a short span of time, you feel all of the associated emotions at once. It gets overwhelming. Fear grips you, and in such a state, clarity cannot emerge. For clarity to emerge, your mind has to be hooked on one thought. Either you can force it to be hooked or you can train yourself to do that.
Why do we need clarity in one thought? Because when the reader reads the headline and begins to read your essay, they expect a discourse, a dissection, and a formidable point of view. This includes a clear conclusion of what you mean. They need to know why you chose to write the essay and what you mean by it.
Good writing is an outcome of picking one core idea and expanding on it until you have nothing left to dig deeper. Good writing is not about going wide but going deeper. It requires you to anchor your mind to that one core idea and keep digging. Beginners make the mistake of thinking wide instead of thinking deep.
Variety requires a wide range of thoughts. Clarity demands depth in one idea.
Not all ideas are worth writing about. The only way you can know this is by digging deeper. Sometimes you discover gold; other times, there’s nothing at the end. You only pick the idea where you discover the gold at the end. That’s how you know your idea has some substance.