My wife is a member of an artist's cooperative. I think a main feature of a "cooperative" is that it is basically owned and operated by the people in it. But I have wondered if they are missing a major art. They have painting and pottery and weaving but they seem to have skipped writing.
I know there are scholars and thinkers all over the subject of writing. But it is still the case that unless you tell us what you are feeling and thinking, it is difficult to know. So what? It may be a service to the earth to avoid using paper, ink, electricity to write much the same thing as other people write. Alongside ``opinion", reportage, and news, it may be that nobody is going to pay attention to what I write or to what you write.
However, there is one person that I think will benefit from writing what is on your mind. That person is you. To write, you have to make marks on paper or some medium. By choosing what words will convey your experiences, your feelings, your perceptions, you tend to sharpen your thinking. Plus, you will create a record of your efforts at knowing yourself and records of what you find in the world catching your attention.
