Thank you. This brought me to tears. I'm also a writer, not a content creator. It's taken me a few years to realize this, and to understand what that means for the call of writing on my life. I write marketing copy daily (and get paid for it, thank you, God) for businesses that need my creative services. But my own writing, on my blog, isn't and never will be "content." I don't have much of a platform, audience engagement, or a brand. Honestly, as a writer (and maybe this is showing my age, I don't know), those words make me recoil. What it means to not pursue those things, though, is that I'm writing pretty much for free. I live with the tension of needing to write and also wondering why on earth I do this to myself. But in the end, I just pray and trust that others will benefit from it and that it brings glory to God. (And that's exactly what this post has done for me today - thank you, Samuel.)
You are "speaking my language" (like Tom put it)...not content creating it, just writing it :),
I have come to terms with what I experienced as a pastor preaching for over 30 years to small congregations. I always appreciated a week of Holy Spirit's whispers and my writing, more than the 20 minutes of my proclamation and the not so certain affirmation of the congregation.
If it is any consolation, you are not my dopamine fixer. The pleasure of reading is to hear (learn?) how you have been thinking, that is, to meet you. And that meeting is the writer's work. Indeed in a digitally thick age, being parsimonious is an assertion of the human over the Machine and the flattening of the affections which algorithms necessarily bring. So think. Ponder. Explore. (Get the work done too, mind you!) and when you can: write.
Great post! I've been thinking about the same thing recently. In our hyper-speed world, content creators must put out new material every day or risk being forgotten; but the types of things I like to read and want to write cannot be thought about or written at that speed. They require a significant input of reading and thinking, and they take time to form into something useful. Blessings on your continued writing!
One of the reasons why artificial intelligence is intruding so much into communication is that people want to create contact instead of writing. Artificial intelligence is not intelligent. It has no consciousness. Thus, it cannot write anything we can write something.
I resonate with every word. I became a writer before the Internet even existed. I recently posted on Facebook. I am not a content creator. I am a writer.
Feeling seen 👀:)
Thank you. This brought me to tears. I'm also a writer, not a content creator. It's taken me a few years to realize this, and to understand what that means for the call of writing on my life. I write marketing copy daily (and get paid for it, thank you, God) for businesses that need my creative services. But my own writing, on my blog, isn't and never will be "content." I don't have much of a platform, audience engagement, or a brand. Honestly, as a writer (and maybe this is showing my age, I don't know), those words make me recoil. What it means to not pursue those things, though, is that I'm writing pretty much for free. I live with the tension of needing to write and also wondering why on earth I do this to myself. But in the end, I just pray and trust that others will benefit from it and that it brings glory to God. (And that's exactly what this post has done for me today - thank you, Samuel.)
You are "speaking my language" (like Tom put it)...not content creating it, just writing it :),
I have come to terms with what I experienced as a pastor preaching for over 30 years to small congregations. I always appreciated a week of Holy Spirit's whispers and my writing, more than the 20 minutes of my proclamation and the not so certain affirmation of the congregation.
Man, you're speaking my language! I see you!
If it is any consolation, you are not my dopamine fixer. The pleasure of reading is to hear (learn?) how you have been thinking, that is, to meet you. And that meeting is the writer's work. Indeed in a digitally thick age, being parsimonious is an assertion of the human over the Machine and the flattening of the affections which algorithms necessarily bring. So think. Ponder. Explore. (Get the work done too, mind you!) and when you can: write.
Great post! I've been thinking about the same thing recently. In our hyper-speed world, content creators must put out new material every day or risk being forgotten; but the types of things I like to read and want to write cannot be thought about or written at that speed. They require a significant input of reading and thinking, and they take time to form into something useful. Blessings on your continued writing!
I very much resonate with this. I'm not a content creator.
Well spoken Sir. thank you.
Yes! This is what I'm feeling but didn't have the words for. Thank you.
A hearty amen here!
One of the reasons why artificial intelligence is intruding so much into communication is that people want to create contact instead of writing. Artificial intelligence is not intelligent. It has no consciousness. Thus, it cannot write anything we can write something.
I resonate with every word. I became a writer before the Internet even existed. I recently posted on Facebook. I am not a content creator. I am a writer.
YES! A thousand times, this. Thank you, Samuel.