Something to repeat to yourself in the shower:
My stories are not for everyone.Â
My stories will bore some readers. Some readers will hate them. Some wonât understand, wonât connect the dots, wonât relate to the characters. Some wonât because they canât, some wonât because they donât want to, but most wonât simple because my stories just arenât for them.
My stories arenât for everyone.
And theyâre for the readers who will love them. Theyâre for the reader who have already loved them. For the readers who will see what I see in them and feel the characters and the world the way I do. Theyâre for the readers who wanted these stories before they even knew they existed. Theyâre for the readers theyâll make smile, the readers theyâll stick with, and the readers theyâll save.
And just because my stories arenât for everyone doesnât make them worth any less to the people they are for.Â
Not everyone likes butterflies. Not everyone likes spiders. But the people who love those creatures more than anything else would lose a part of themselves if they didnât exist.Â
So no, my stories are not for everyone. But that doesnât matter.Â
Because theyâre for someone, and to that someone, theyâre irreplaceable.