Thanks for this prompt! I was always a writer because I emulated my mom - there've been many categories of writer for me: the journaler, the poet, the magical child writer, the beginning writer who went to memoir and character classes, the beginning fiction writer who swirled about in an ADHD cloud for years before growing roots - working with a book coach who taught me how to plot and gave me the tools to contain my writing. All of these cycles and versions are necessary and have brought me here to the place I share my writing confidence. It also helped to recognize that I didn't need a permission slip to be a real writer, I only had to give myself permission.
This is a really interesting thing to ponder! I think it's really all about intention. Writing like a writer means planting a flag and declaring, "I have something to say. I have a story to tell." And then saying it in the very best way you know how. The craft is what helps us communicate our ideas more effectively, but the intention is what makes us engage with them in the first place.
Hi Joshua! Thanks for your pondering. I love how you describe writing as making a declaration of having a story to tell, something to say. I think that is the raw motive for me writing, for sure.
Thanks for this prompt! I was always a writer because I emulated my mom - there've been many categories of writer for me: the journaler, the poet, the magical child writer, the beginning writer who went to memoir and character classes, the beginning fiction writer who swirled about in an ADHD cloud for years before growing roots - working with a book coach who taught me how to plot and gave me the tools to contain my writing. All of these cycles and versions are necessary and have brought me here to the place I share my writing confidence. It also helped to recognize that I didn't need a permission slip to be a real writer, I only had to give myself permission.
It's strange how many of us wait for that 'permission slip' when permission to write was something we had the power to give ourselves all along.
Angela, I am so happy you are here!
This is a really interesting thing to ponder! I think it's really all about intention. Writing like a writer means planting a flag and declaring, "I have something to say. I have a story to tell." And then saying it in the very best way you know how. The craft is what helps us communicate our ideas more effectively, but the intention is what makes us engage with them in the first place.
Hi Joshua! Thanks for your pondering. I love how you describe writing as making a declaration of having a story to tell, something to say. I think that is the raw motive for me writing, for sure.
I am looking forward to your next post.
I appreciate it!
Along with grammar and spelling, there is also purpose, genre, and audience.
Yes, and always so much more. "...pushing past the echo of “not enough” and into the quiet courage of saying something anyway."