Blog for writers: sharing the struggles & Joys
Facing the Hard Parts
It's time to get real. Writing can be painful, even if it is your purpose or your joy. You have to tap into painful memories, leverage your own traumas, and life experiences that are not always fun to relive. You have to face all of your fears, or it can show up in your prose when you least expect it.
Letting Go During Revision
The revising process can involve you letting go of scenes, chapters, and passages that you were connected to, and it's hard to admit that it doesn’t move the story forward.
Writing Is Always Personal
When writing is good, it's personal. There is no such thing as “don’t take it personal.” It's your art. And to quote Erkyah Badu… “I’m an Artist and I’m sensitive about my S-.”
You wield your pen like a brush, carefully outlining your portrait, picking all of the right color palettes so that when people behold your masterpiece, they feel. They feel emotion. They feel moved. They feel inspired. They feel forever changed. So here comes the good part.
The Healing Process
Although the process you go through may have mental hills and valleys, coming out the other side can be healing. You go into the process unsure, and you come out a conqueror. You are forever changed, knowing that you can accomplish insurmountable tasks.
One of my favorite quotes is, “Sometimes you are assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.”
Finding Transformation in Storytelling
Dealing with your own life experiences and traumas on the page and transferring them to your characters allows you to see the possibility of their arc, but also of your own. You can inspire yourself and spark change that you didn't even know was there—just one word, one sentence, one paragraph at a time.
Look at you being all powerful and stuff.
Your Story, Your Joy
And although you hope others feel the same, you have written your favorite book. You have written your story. I am telling you, no one—and I mean no one—should be able to take that joy from you.
Goodreads, BookTok, Bookstagram, and whatever they call it on YouTube… Ain’t got nothing on you, baby! (Bad grammar on purpose.) Look at you shining! I am impressed!
And whether they tell you or not, they are too—whoever they are in your world.
Final Thoughts
It will be hard. It will be messy. You will make mistakes. You will live. You will thrive. And in the end, it will all be worth it.
Now get to writing! We are waiting on you…
