writers need a lot of encouragement, and over the past few weeks I’ve been told a lot of really cool things about writers that we deserve or that we should be thinking about in terms of our value. so if you’re ever doubting yourself as a writer, keep all of these in mind!
I’ll start off by saying that people want you. They want your stories and your ideas. Not everyone can write well, not everyone is good at telling stories, but everyone wants a good story to get absorbed in. You’re in high demand! Recognize the value in what you can do, and how valuable it is to other people.
Your time is worth just as much as the time of people consuming your work. Don’t let people waste it. After all, you need time to write, and they need that material that you’re providing.
Most writers aren’t confident, even really successful ones, so you’re in good company. But you need to believe in what you’re writing if you want anyone else to buy into it, otherwise it’s a waste of their time. Why waste time on something you don’t believe in? If you’re willing to spend a lot of time writing something, it’s because you see something great in it, you see something worth spending a lot of time on, and you think someone else is going to enjoy it, too. Remember that.
It’s really really really hard to finish anything long (and anything short, to be honest!). And then there’s redrafts and redrafts and redrafts. Keep pushing through to finish it, because it feels really good. And then edit it to make it better. Make it the best it possibly can be. Editing doesn’t mean that what you did was bad. Nothing is at its best on the first try.
Keep writing. You only get better at writing if you do it a lot, like with anything.
Sometimes people don’t always pay as much attention to the things we’re most proud of as we want them to. That’s okay. If you’re proud of it, you have good reason to be, and you accomplished something.
Alternatively, sometimes people pay a lot of attention to something you don’t really think is worth paying as much attention to for whatever reason. But they’ve clearly seen something in it that’s really resonating with them, and you did that! You got that reaction out of them! Congratulations!
Writing is hard, but it’s also cathartic and incredibly rewarding, not just for you, but for everyone who reads what you’ve written. So keep on doing what you do, believe in it, and know that there are people out there who believe in you and want what you have to give!
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