Founder Story

I’ve always been a writer and a gamer, but writing for me was hard. I’d walk my dog, turn my phone on silent, close my door and finally sit down to write only to be faced with writer’s block. I felt stuck, was constantly switching tactics to get motivated, and I was slowly starting to feel like I couldn’t write - like I wasn’t a writer.

Until one day my gaming side kicked in and I decided to give writer’s block a name “Wignow” and if I defeated this Wignow I’d reward myself with a chocolate. I now had an opponent that was getting in the way of my writing and felt energized and excited to take on the challenge. That day I wrote more words than I had in months and I finally felt like the powerful creative I knew I was.

That day writing became fun again and everything changed. I would now wake up looking forward to the monsters I would fight that day and the words and stories that would flow out of me as a result of that. I felt like a kid again, killing imaginary monsters, writing stories and bringing to life the worlds that used to live only in my imagination.

I didn’t know it back then, but on that day 4thewords was born. A place where we kill monsters with our words, earn rewards for writing and level up our heroes. We are a community of warriors, of writers, of dreamers, and together, we are saving our world from a poisonous dust that infects others with fear.

We are Dust Warriors and we fight our fears!