How can you stop yourself from becoming a writer? By keeping all your thoughts locked in your mind, and never lifting a piece of tool to record down these thoughts that eventually turns into an essay, a dissertation, a short story, a novel, a play.
Don't bothere picking up your pen and a pad of paper to record fleeting thoughts. Don't take your phone out and write a short note about the idea you have that will bring the point home to what you are achieving.
If we don't use tools at our disposal, whether it's a typerwriter, an iPad, a pen and paper, Scrivener, then there's no way the world can read what your ideas are, what stories you have in your mind.
So, open up your wrod processing of choice, your favorite pen, sit down, and start writing. Write, whether you have 3 minutes or 3 hours. I have a 20-month old girl sitting next to me, and I never know how long I have to write these posts. Part of these exercises is to also get her used to her mommy writing on the laptop and teach boundaries ("No, no touching the laptop! Ahhh, you typed some weird letters!"
Humans have the ability to create fantastic tools to help us achieve things. It's time to use them.
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