Writers don't write to get published. If this is your motivation you're going to be disappointed. Writers write because they must write. They cannot NOT write.
Writers write for lots of reasons. But the first reason is that they are compelled to create. The only reason to write is because a writer must write. Writers write because they have something to say. Many people have something to say. But for a writer, they must say it. They must get the something into words.
The writer's only hope is to develop discipline around his or her craft. Otherwise there is going to be much left unsaid. And the unsaid words haunt the writer.
A writer must focus on what is before him or her. They cannot look back. Nor can they look forward. To write is to be present. This is hard--very hard.
Writing is valuable, if only to the writer. And that's enough. But on occasion, the words breakout and the writer has said something that resonates with the reader.
When a writer writers only for an audience they have lost their reason for writing. Good writing is birthed from the deep places of the writer and it must come out and it doesn't matter if anyone reads it. This is writing.
Writing is hard. But not writing is harder.
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