Uplifting Creators

Collage with newspaper and magazine words and images

Write it anyway, write it anyway, write it anyway.

There are so, so, so many reasons:

You gain that skill level only through practice. So practice.

No matter what you’re writing, no matter how badly you think you’ve written it, there is ALWAYS some audience that will love it and cherish it.

You can use what you write the first time around as a first draft and just rewrite it again later when you feel like tackling the story again!

Rewriting the same story over and over is a valid writing process. It’s literally just creating new drafts. Each iteration will be better than the last, because each is building on your growing skill and experience.

If you love the story, it will always be worth telling simply for your own enjoyment. If no one else ever sees it, that’s okay! Your art should be for you first, anyway.

This one poor psychiatrist has been in his office for more than 24 hours straight because people keep coming in and he has to try to help them, somehow, if they leave they might wind up on a bridge, he doesn’t know what to do. Then three of his regulars show up at his office. Not people who know each other, either, they all individually showed up at the same time. And they’re all ‘Doc, there is some messed up shit going on’. 

And this poor guy is all “listen, I’m sorry, but you three are coping pretty well and you are already on medication, okay, I really need to focus on the people this is happening to for the first time because they’re freaking out’. 

And the patients tell him “Yeah, but this is different. This is coming from the outside.”

“… what do you mean, outside, outside of what?”

“Outside of us. Look, we’ve all been hearing hallucinations or compulsions or intrusive thoughts or whatever for years, we’re used to it, you’ve helped us deal with a lot of stuff, but now there’s a new voice and it’s NOT coming from inside the building.” 

“… okay, you know what, you guys are the experts on this stuff. Hit me.”