With the amount of content available in the internet you ask yourself if your writing is contributing any value or just adding to the noise. Before you stop writing, close the word document without saving it, or put down your pen read this post. 

Why continue writing

The more you write, the better you get at it. Your writing gets better with time and with practice. You should never assume that you have created the best work of your life. Always strive for something better the next time.
Writing sharpens your brain, when you write you are exercising your brain – finding new words, finding connections between the words, building a story, a narrative.
Writing allows you to express yourself and it brings out your inner most thoughts. Writing works as a self-actualization journey for many. You become more aware of yourself and others around you. You may also become more observant to things around you – counting the steps while climbing, noises when you are travelling, patterns formed by clouds in the sky.
Writing fuels your imagination and makes you a more visual person. One of the tenants of all successful leaders is their ability to visualize the future situations. This is nurtured by reading and writing. The more you try to describe something on paper – the more you will tend to visualize it subconsciously which leads to strengthening one of your core requirement of leadership.
People love reading and they are increasingly becoming aware of power of internet which gives democratization of information to a large extent. This means more potential readers out there to read and enjoy your story.
The writer if interacting with the reader becomes wiser as each reader will have their own unique perspective to your story. They will add to the richness and you usually grow along with the readers.
Most importantly, you have a story to tell. You have characters, feelings,

Why you should stop writing

If you want to be the next bestseller. Writing is challenging, selling is even more difficult. You do not become an overnight success. The road to success is often a crooked one (Read my book and this blog post for more information)
You want to become famous. Again for the reasons given above, there are very few chances you would be known to more than a handful of people for your writing unless you become the next Dan Brown.
You are not able to handle criticism. People will shred your story, make fun of you, may call you names – all this has become easier under the garb of anonymity that internet provides you. If you get offended easily writing is not for you, for even the best of authors have been called a crap author by someone at some point of their career.
You do not want to work hard or regularly. If you do not devote enough time to writing – you will have difficulty improving your writing. Also, the attention span today is too less and the loyalty fickle. If you are not in constant touch with your fan base they may easily forget you especially if you fizzle out before you are established enough.

These are some of my ramblings, what are your thoughts? What should I add to the two lists, any big items I am missing from here?

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