Write Drunk, Edit Sober

This post was inspired by @stellabelle's vlog which she said a lot of meaningful things after a bottle of drink.

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I have mentioned it here a couple of times that I am not a writer, I am a person who likes sharing thoughts and ideas to people. I have never blogged before joining steemit. But I have a thing for stories, which before joining here I used to write on pieces if paper which sometimes get lost. I have to start all over again to rewrite them. But with steemit they are saved in blockchain to be accessed any given day I want.

In my cause of blogging I have encountered a lot of people, most are those I tried to recruit for steemit. Others are newbies on the platform. They always complain the same thing, "How can I survive steemit. Everyone here is a writer. I am not a writer." I always have the same reply, "Neither am I." The next question is something some of you reading could have guessed. It is this, "How can you say you are not a writer, I just visited your blog and saw a lot of articles?"

I always tell them that their power of observation had not failed them. Yes. I wrote all the articles. There was no special training. I did most of the article following Ernest Hemingway's advise.

Write drunk, edit sober.

While not saying you should go out on a binge before writing, what I am trying to pass across is this, do not overprepare before writing an article.

There are time an idea would come to you and you really need to put it down. But then the correct words to put them tends to be am issue. I usually type it as is on my Google Keep app. My favorite mobile app (I write mostly on mobile) is Google Keep. It is an amazing app. You can save and access with another device as long as you logged in with same gmail.

You can even do voice dictation and everything is securely kept for you. It is a handy tool which I used to jot down my "drunk" ideas. I write it down without bothering to check if it makes sense or whether the grammar is ok. All I do is write it down.

Then when I want to post that is when I do the edit (some I just post the "drunken" version). Those drunken versions most times are the best creative ideas you may ever come up with.

You may wait for that perfect moment or that perfect creative idea to pop into your head. Newsflash: That is usually once in a blue moon.

So, I encourage you to always put down those "crazy" ideas down as it pumps and dances around your mind waiting for an escape vent. So, do the most expected thing; let the creative juice flow in that cup and share it for posterity.

So why wait untill you are sober? Write drunk now!