Writing Is Great!

The Writing Is Great! podcast is about writing as a daily exercise to keep your mind fit and flexible, just as you do physical exercise to keep your body healthy. I started the Writing Is Great! podcast for those of us who have graduated to what is currently called “retirement” by many. (Although, of course, writing is great exercise for everyone.) If we’re going to make the best of the rest of our lives, this gift of time our generations have been granted, we need to keep both our minds and bodies healthy and active.

Writing Is Great! is a weekly conversation with reminders and tips on why to start writing, or why to start writing again, how to get started writing, how to get through the resistance to starting and continuing, how to keep going, and numerous other topics. As well things that tend to crop up in the course of any conversation. The Writing Is Great! podcast helps you to discover the power in your own writing, to develop a practice of exercising your mind, and to turn the key to a more profoundly experienced life. It's about how to use writing to stimulate your mind on a regular basis using the power of your personal writing. 

Writing is a gift we all have. Writing is about discovering or remembering the ability to do, every day, something that gets richer and deeper with age — articulating what is uniquely yours — expressing what only you can say — what will remain unsaid if you don’t express it yourself. Because you are the only person who can. You produce something from nothing. Something only you can. No one else can write what you will write, just as no one else can think your thoughts. It's true magic!

I’ve found a daily writing practice to be a great, relatively simple, inexpensive, and enjoyable way to exercise my mind. It has become a great way to distill my experience, to revive and release my memories. It releases creativity and imagination I didn’t know I had. Writing helps me to live a more intentional, memorable, contemplated, life. The more I write, the more I remember, the more I have to think about, and the more I have to write about. To me writing shows a life loved as well as lived. I write to understand and remember my life better, to discover, to pay attention, to be aware, to have fun, to create, to make up, to imagine.

BTW: If you want to hear more about me, you can go to the Introduction podcast.