As of 2023, there are 8.1 billion people on Earth. That means there are 8.1 billion unique brains. If you’re a writer, you need to experiment and see what kinds of writing help you and in what ways. Psychologists have found certain overarching similarities between people, but that doesn’t mean that everything works the same exact way for every person. My suggestion is to try both fiction and nonfiction. Try typing and writing by hand, if that’s physically feasible for you. (If you don’t want a diary lying around to be stolen and read, you can always tear up or burn the entries after you write them.) Try things you’ve never tried before, like a poem or a letter. Try imaginative nurturing.
Dr. Patrick Bryce Wright
