Why a pencil can enrich one’s work tremendously
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Do you write as much as I do?
I think for us mental workers writing is probably the most important form of communication and expression in general.
We write to record our thoughts, to develop them and to bring them into a certain structure, a shape.
This makes them available whenever you need them.
But most of all we can share our ideas with other people much better when they are written down.
Writing allows us to to share our thoughts in a very simple way with a large number of people using newspapers, blogs …
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Now you will certainly ask yourself: What has all this got to do with a pencil !?
Well, I think there are two important things concerning the writing process for which a pencil can be very helpful.
The Clarification Of Your Ideas
Writing is a very creative business. Just a few writers know at the beginning of their texts exactly what they actually want to put on paper.
There is a wide variety of methods and tools, such as creativity techniques, mind maps, etc., which should help to create a better picture of what you really want to communicate.
I use such techniques very often.
But unfortunately, all these methods don’t help you with writing itself.
At some point we simply must get into writing.
This point needs a little self-conquest at the beginning. In most cases it takes a while until we get into the writing flow.
Generally you shouldn’t pay too much attention to the choice of your words at the beginning of your text.
This only slows your flow of thoughts down.
Words can also be exchanged later on.
When you start writing, writing itself should be in the focus.
And now your pencil comes into play:
In my opinion it makes a big difference between starting to write with my pencil or starting to write using my computer keyboard e.g.
The clarification of ideas takes place of its own volition when writing with a pencil.
Creativity takes possession of you and you don’t even realize it consciously.
You get into a writing flow very quickly and your thoughts come up without saying.
Each single sentence is better understood, captured and lovingly prepared before it is written down. Yes, you’ve heard right: lovingly.
Finally, you don’t want to waste any sentence.
After all it is your sentence and your mind work.
While you’re writing you get a growing sense of how valuable your sentences really are. They aren’t any bits and bytes on some anonymous hard disk.
They can’t be shaped, changed and most of all revised so easily.
Hand-written texts simply have a higher weighting.
The graphite mine of your pencil casts your words in lead and gives them a serious expression.
Your words are no pure energy any longer. They have become a small part of our common reality.
Sometimes while writing with my pencil a strange feeling just creeps me over.
A feeling as if it wasn’t me who has written the last few words I can read consciously upon the sheet of paper that lies right in front of me.
It feels more as if it has been my pencil that has leaded me.
An impressive experience!
Your pencil certainly helps you to deal more intensively with your text, to identify and to merge with it mentally.
The Motivation To Write
As soon as you take your pencil to hand your writing becomes a real handcraft.
Graphite remains on your gray-shimmering fingers, wood scraps from sharpening your pencil and rubber leftovers cover your desk.
You feel like a typesetter creating a significant work.
Your work is a work of art and you are the artist.
This aspect of writing is very motivating.
It emphasizes the importance of your work and it gives you this very satisfactory feeling of having accomplished something in the real world and not just in your own mind.
You feel like the great poets and thinkers who built the great thought buildings of humanity working in front of a flickering candle
just armed with pencil and paper.
Now it’s your text that enriches this world as a small work of art.
What could be more motivating?
