She spent the first three years of her life between Nigeia, Biafra and Scotland. Why write my story? My daughter needs to know it. What's your biggest roadblock between you and your story? Let us know in the comments. Be brave, fellow writer, and tell your story.
If you read nothing else in this article, read this: get to work and tell your story. The ones who don't give up make good art. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” If you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.Ī lot of people never get past this phase. I wish someone told me: For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. Anyone can do it badly it's the folks who continue to study and practice who shine. It's the same as learning a musical instrument or excelling in a sport. Telling your story well can take time, and that's normal.
Whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction, fantasy worlds or parenting blogs, your story - like fingerprints - is your own. No one has your experiences, dreams, hopes, and fears. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. Consider the advice of best-selling author Neil Gaiman:Īke your art. Your story matters because it is uniquely your own, and no one can tell it the way you can. Characters in books can actually make us feel less alone in our own daily life. I know how tired you are. I know some of you don't feel heard. I know some of you might fear you don't matter.Įveryone's experiences are unique, and as we share our stories, our perspectives, our take on world building and character development, we actually expand other people's understanding. Yet in spite of that - or maybe because of it - there's something you need to do: tell your story. Some years carry a heavier toll than others, and this is one of them. Here's why.įor a lot of us, this has been a rough year, a tiring year, a painful year. Instead of focusing on the mechanics of writing, I'm going to dive into something more important: you need to tell your story. Today's post is going to be a little different.
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