thewritershelpers:

write-like-a-freak:

stephanie-small:

write-like-a-freak:

Your value as a person is not at all dependent upon the quantity or quality of writing you produce

Your identity as a writer is not at all dependent upon the quantity or quality of writing you produce

Your stories are still important even if they can only live in your head

You are still important even if you can’t tell your stories right now (or ever)

Having a story that fails or flops or stops or falls apart doesn’t mean that story is worthless, a waste of time, and you are not worthless or a waste of time because you couldn’t see the story through

Don’t tell yourself getting published is your capital-G Goal, and that you’re worthless until you’ve been published. The goal is to practice that art that makes you so happy. If you’re writing specifically to get published, you’re no longer writing for you.

You are still important whether you last wrote ten minutes ago, yesterday, a month ago, or three years ago.

People, your parents, society, capitalism will tell you all of these things aren’t true. Fuck them.

And please be kind to yourselves and to your writing.

Love,

A writer who has learned all these things the hard way so maybe you guys won’t have to

Wow. I never thought of these things this way; thank you so much. But when you say a story that has failed isn’t a waste, I don’t really understand. If it doesn’t work out why was it even worth it in the first place? An honest question.

All writing is growth. Every story, every word, every day you can manage to get up and actually be creative is so very worth it. 

Your “failed” stories were important to you while you were writing them, and even though you’re no longer that person, it was necessary for you to be that person to grow into the person you are now. Every step along the way is what’s gotten you to where you are now.

Great advice to writers. #amwriting #writers