People can write for several reasons but trying to write when you want to clear your mind and have a critical thinking is a skill and a very useful way to address your worries and hold your sanity.
It is very true that everyone has their own cross to bear but for many of us problem in life goes to a level where mind suddenly stops functioning and body seems paralyzed and person is facing depression and suddenly has no clue how to get back to life again.
Yes, such problems are very complex in nature and hard to get out of. One has to find ways to deal with this situation and writing is one the best ways. All writers somehow try to express themselves in their stories so anyone can take help in writing.
Your writing can open new channels and it can help you to understand your problem as if it is not yours but of a character that you are writing about. Then it becomes easier to understand your situation in much better way. Indeed, it is very good way to clear your mental cobweb and writing also helps your critical thinking.
Critical thinking is an ability to organize your mind and drop all the ideas and struggles in different mental boxes and then analyze them correctly so that you can get to the point of decision making.
Critical thinking is a subject to be taught one in your grammar class and it is not only writing about any given situation but it is all about the analysis. Writing helps in jotting all the possibilities and ideas at one place and judging the situation and using your best ability is all that really matters.
Reading is very good exercising that helps as it opens before you the seasoned writers who while understanding their characters and situation address some new ideas and discover various logics and arguments that help in smoothing the story and hold the interest of the readers.
The best benefit of reading is that you learn how others think. In fact, writing is all about thinking. If you think then you can write so it is very important to think clearly. Clear thinking comes after having a full knowledge of the situation, factors influencing that situation and the nature of characters involved in it.
A writer always flows in emotions but he also judges his characters by facts. In the light of facts his situation evokes and then he gradually relates things with his writing and draws a whole story or a novel.
Several times a writer also feels to go with his feeling and sympathies for his character or characters but it weakens his story and storytelling craft so it is very important for him to tighten his feelings, opinions and judgement and allow the story to move on as it should.
A story always finds its natural end. A writer always analyzes it with very careful thoughts and in thorough manner being fully detached from all his characters. This detachment is the key that helps in differentiating the facts from opinions. A writer knows well which elements need consideration and before going further ahead he works hard to consider one fact or incidence under different perspectives which helps him in revealing potential danger of pursuing certain decision.
In fact, every story has a conflict like our life does and mostly one leads to another and character’s individual interest often creates dangerous situations where the most infected character reaction can make everything go from bad to worst like we find in our daily life.
Writing helps you in learning about new things and conditions you to stop taking your first step in the direction where you could be forced to head towards the worst. In life too, we have several people around us with different interest and they can change with temptation of benefit and interest.
Learning is always a slow process and learning about a person always requires time, facts and critical thinking. It aims at securing the best possibility in any given situation. It also involves the assessment of your personal strengths, weaknesses and clear vision about the future where a good decision could lead you as a character or individual.