Writing Prompt: What Do You Enjoy Most About Writing?

First, a confession. I have taken the good folks at WordPress for granted. These prompts are a good idea.

Daily writing prompt

What do you enjoy most about writing?

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Hard question. I don’t write my sermons, but I do write (most of) our episodes.

I think the thing I enjoy most about writing in this context is how different it is from the other kinds of writing and communication I’m usually doing. It’s fun to find a voice, develop it, and cut loose a little bit. I think it’s healthy, too.

When Hamilton came out, I saw some of my younger self in the idea of writing like you’re running out of time. Now I think more like Bruce Springsteen:

Remember all the movies, Terry
We’d go see
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes
We thought we had to be

What about you?