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On Being a Writer

1/5/2020

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When you are a writer, you are relentlessly drawn into a force beyond yourself.


You work towards a vision no one besides you can see.
You believe in yourself and a story that doesn’t fully exist yet.
You beat yourself into oblivion
to produce something
that you never really know will work out.



So you work.
And you work.
And you WORK.


Oftentimes, your work slips past unnoticed,
as life pulls everyone around you in a million different directions.



But all you can think is,
“Will they like it?"
"Will they live inside this wild world I’ve lived inside my entire life?"
"Will anyone even care?”



Do you know how you know you are truly a writer?
Like honestly,
a true and fiercely committed,
I’ll-do-this-till-I-die writer?



When you do it despite all that.


When two a.m. sprawls across your bedside clock and all you can do is lie awake,
eyes wide open,
writing the next sentence of your novel in your head.

You believe in it.
More than you’ve believed in anything your entire life.



Apparently that’s what they say faith is.
Faith despite evidence.

Faith despite all of life slapping you relentlessly in the face
with the cold hard fact
that you are one among millions.



But you do it anyway.

Because you are.
You are a writer.
You don’t stop.
Don’t stop.
Never stop.

Write on my beloved friends.
Write on.
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My early morning workspace.
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A Homage to Our Pain

1/3/2020

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The truth is,
everyone is battling with something.
Whether it be an external conflict
or an inner demon -
no one person is exempt.

That’s the deal we make - that’s the human experience.

Whether you are deep in the fury of your storms
or the pendulum swing has temporarily granted you mercy,
I think we must take a minute
to pay a homage to our pain.

Because the reality is,
some of the most beautiful aspects
of who we are,
were once shaped by the darkest days of our lives. 

Think about it...

Your convictions. 
Your truths. 
Your battle wounds. 

Your deeply ingrained strength that held you together when everything seemed to crash around you...
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was welded together
from all the things that once broke you. 

Our scars are what make us beautiful. 

If it weren’t for the soul-crushing,
slide-down-the-wall-with-my-head-in-my-hands,
cry-until-I-can’t-breathe
loss and rejection I experienced at a young age,
I wouldn’t be here today. 

And here..
where I stand in this moment,
is so much better
than anything I could have ever dreamed of.

Stand proud.
Stand TALL.
You are stronger than you think. 
And it is only because you have fought your way through.

Your wounds have become your wings. 

So keep on keeping on,

you tough little thing, you. 

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