The Power of Writing by @samuelowusu1

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For as long as human beings have existed, writings have also been in existence, its also made cleared that some of the oldest man made writing items are still preserved relevant till this day, that's to tell us writing has been in existence as old as the creation itself.

Even the then cave men used sticks to draw markings on the floor, stones and on trees to depict and sometimes communicate and send different types of messages among themselves. Even The Almighty cherish writings a lot that he gave the ten commandments and commands it to be written down for the generation to come as reference.

With this short introduction, in sure you've understood what i mean already, because written contents can be powerful and can span through hundreds,thousands and millions of years. If you still do not understand why writing is so powerful yet, let's break it down.

A few reasons why writing is such an effective tool

Below we are going to be talking at writings as; an entertainment value, as an emotional importance, as persuasive importance, as educative and educational important.

Writing can Entertain:

Imaging what life would be without entertainment, the writing may be true life writing or fictional story, fantasies which will in turn entertain the reader. For example let's sight some classic novels to better understand this; "Romeo and Juliet", "The Three Musketeers" etc, and even the movies we watch must be scripted too before they put into acting, hence this is the entertainment value writing can give.

Writings can make people hate or Love you:

You may actually send a message or write to someone today and the person appreciates you, and after sometime again you write to the same person under different circumstances and the person gets furious at you, that's the power of writing in terms of changing people's mood. In essence, writing can warm a person's heart or makes someone cold as ice, because human beings emotion are very easy to change and writings or texts do penetrates easily and effectively.

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Writings can get Needed customers for your business;

let's channel this to a modern day importance as far as business is concerned. When you have a simple yet very constructive write-ups, it can actually convince a client or prospect to do or transact business with you. Business owners or companies hires secretaries who handles their daily writing and execute several forms of writing task, for example; writing business proposal, formal letters on behalf of the company etc. Don't be shock that even the first class graduates seeking for job still hires the best writers to help them write their resumes, because in most cases, the better their writing, the more confidence it gives them to convince their potential employer to be able to give them available job.

Writing can help explain events:

We were not and didn't live in the ancient days but their text have been found in our modern day, and most of these writings contains certain events that we wouldn't have known about if they weren't properly documented. In these days, there were no audio, electricity, or video recorders to record their everyday life events and there's no man on earth ageing 3000 years to tell the tales, knowing their histories made it possible through writings. Meanwhile some angient languages still been spoken up till today are; Greek, Hebrew, Egyptian etc and their preservation was made possible by writings.

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Writing can be used to communicate

The power of writing truly is in the ability to communicate, when two or more people exchange text or writing relating to how they feel or about certain events in writing, that's a form of communication. Now to our modern day that we do everything mostly through text, on paper, on our phone or computers etc, it gives us the ability to have less talk. You know the feeling of just writing to a person when you feel you don't want to talk or weak to talk, you just grab that pen and write to the person.