Hello Everyone,
I have been working with a lot of authors lately who have just been breaking my heart, and I felt it necessary that I wrote an inspirational post to try and counteract what I have been hearing.
So many times in today’s harsh writing market, authors are torn apart and treated as lesser if their story is not something that a certain reader or critic likes, and this leaves the author feeling as though they are lesser of a person or an artist. Well, I say that is bull shit, because every author deserves to love their writing and their stories, and don’t you dare let anyone take that away from you.
It is true that many times writing is seen as more of a business than an art, but I don’t think that is right. As a writer, you don’t need to try and prove to anyone that you are good at what you do or that your imagination is valid. Remember why you started writing in the first place, and I can almost guarantee that it wasn’t to try and prove yourself to anyone. More often than not, you started writing for yourself and the pleasure that it brought you. Your story is valid, your story is art, and no one can EVER take that piece of your soul away from you. Sometimes readers forget that books ARE a piece of an author’s soul, and by criticizing the story in a negative light that isn’t helpful but damaging, they are emotionally wounding the author.
Therefore, my point with this post is to remind all of you authors out there that you are important and that your stories ARE vital. Everyone may not love your book, but you aren’t writing for everyone. You are writing for that one person who feels alone and turns to books for comfort. You are writing for that one person when they come across your book and find that it filled a hole within them after reading it. But more importantly, you are writing for yourself and the void inside of you that writing fills. Writing is therapy, your stories are golden, and don’t you ever let any one person tell you that your writing or story doesn’t matter; because they do. They matter to me.
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Aw, this was a nice message 🙂 I hope this comes across the eyes of many writers for I think they could benefit from this.
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Thank you! ❤
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Nice message! One way it helps me to look at readers’ reactions to what I write is to imagine that instead of “making” a story, I’m making ice-cream… Which is to say, what if my specialty is chocolate ice-cream (or if you want to get exotic, coconut-mango ice-cream)? If one customer likes vanilla and therefore doesn’t like my specialty flavor, they aren’t rejecting me and they aren’t saying that my ice-cream is bad. My ice-cream just isn’t their thing. I shrug it off with a thought akin to “They’re clearly not a chocolate lover,” and focus instead on the kindred soul who thinks it’s just the yummiest.
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I love that! That is a great way to explain it. Just because people like to read doesn’t mean they like to read everything, and understanding that is important.
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I love this post, Ashley. Thank you for writing it. Please accept this heart as a token of my appreciation. ❤
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You are very welcome! I’m so glad it made you happy 🙂 I want every writer to feel important, no matter what anyone else tells them.
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