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Don’t Forget Why You Started Writing in The First Place

Rebecca Tan
3 min readOct 15, 2020

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I was feeling guilty for not writing yet I was too overwhelmed from my full-time job. My other half then told me something enlightening.

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The conversation went something like this.

Me: It’s 2 AM. I am tired, but I really think I should write. I am so lucky that people are paying me for the articles that I write.

Him: Why not rest? You are already so tired.

Me: But I am getting paid for this… so I should put in the effort as a writer

Him: I know where you’re coming from, but do you remember that you did not start off wanting to earn money from writing?

That’s when everything clicked. I did not even think about earning money when I began to write on Medium — Money is nothing but a by-effect and I should never forget why I started writing in the first place.

I wanted to write to express my thoughts

To demonstrate insights of my own — that was (and still is) my priority. I know that this is a platform where we will never lack writers but where else can we find a replica of our own mind?

I wanted to make tech comprehensible

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Rebecca Tan
Rebecca Tan

Written by Rebecca Tan

I bring designs to life through code.

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