Is writing a dying art?

I’ve always considered myself an artist,  but before art - there were my books. 

Words I lost myself in, as much as I could - while I was eating at the dinner table, while I was in church, on the 🚽🤫 evening while I was WALKING TO SCHOOL 💀 

(ok that one was just kinda me flexing but it be true‼️)

I attribute so many of my wise decisions to being a person who has always read books.

But in today’s world of 3 second hooks, visual reels, even podcasts (don’t get me wrong I LUV DEM PODS) - I wonder, is there much demand for reading (and therefore writing) still?

Especially in social media - where typically there’s an underlying motive of pushing *some* sort of agenda - I can’t even count how many “tricks” “hacks” and psychological tactics I’ve seen people share in order to get someone, anyone, ANYONE’S eyeballs on your offer. 

With writing, you can’t quickly consume it. You have to focus. You have to pay attention. 

And a wonderful writer is someone who brings you into a world created only with words…without any psychological distractions to get in the way. 

In a way I like that. 

Maybe I don’t WANT to “stop the scroll”

Maybe I don’t want to have to resort to unnatural & inauthentic surface level psychological tactics in order to get someone’s attention.

It takes precious time

to stop

to focus

to read.

And people who care to do that are my kind of folks.

I’ll take quality over quantity, every single time.

I’d love to hear your opinion on whether writing is a dying art (as we once knew it) or if maybe with all this AI progress - we’ll end up reviving some old fashioned entertainment, straight from a human brain?

Who can say✨

xoxo

ES