Someone cares. There is always an audience for your work. There are always clients who want what you are selling. But if you hide, how will they find you? If you try to be like everyone else, how will they know you’re EXACTLY who they want? If you stop going, how will they become deep fans of your work who talk about you to their friends? After undergrad, I wanted nothing more than to be a successful writer. I wanted to write good sh*t. I wanted to inspire and disturb and delight. I’d start a blog. Stop. Start a short story. Stop. Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Writing was excruciating and made me so anxious I’d get anxiety attacks. I stopped because a reverberating voice screamed, “No one cares.” And I believed it. Or sometimes I heard, “The *right* people didn’t care.” And I believed it. If I didn’t receive immediate validation, I stopped. I decided that silence = no one gives a sh*t. I decided my output didn’t matter unless it was lauded on by the “right” authorities. And true: sometimes silence is a teacher. Maybe we do have to refine, revise, and reassess. But refine, revise, and reassess ≠ stop. Write to the people who care, even if the only person who cares is you. Make friends with the silence. Use it to listen deeply. Pause whenever you need to replenish. But please, keep going. I help writers move out of the stop-start-stop cycle into a rhythm that works for them. DM me to learn more about my 1:1 coaching and developmental editing services and let’s get you in flow. 💋, Hannah • #blackwomenhealing #sacredwisdom #loveofself #queerpoc #selfloveheals #selfloveisimportant #compassionfirst #healingjustice #bethemagic #pleasurerevolution #bipocbookstagram #bipocbooks #nonfictionauthor #nonfictionwriter #bipocauthors #newbookstagram #hannaheko #honeyistheknife (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/hannah.eko/p/CZIbZUhPPJ6/?utm_medium=tumblr
