How To Write Stories Others Will Remember
My friends, writing isn’t difficult.
Getting into the right mindset to create your best content of all time, however, IS.
It’s excruciatingly hard.
That’s
because not only do you have to be in the right mindset to tear through
a page, you also have to have something crippling happen to you.
Like the death of a loved one, or an existential crisis, or a moment where your best friend won’t even stick up for you.
All
of these moments are tough. They’re brutal. They dramatically throw
your world off-kilter and put your mind into some sort of “survival”
mode.
If you think about it, all of these moments end in a safety net getting ripped out from under you.
You
can’t replace a loved one. You can’t replace a best friend’s support.
You can’t easily revert back to the comfort you felt BEFORE an
existential crisis.
In short, things sort of need to happen to you in order to write something truly, truly profound.
To
be clear, you can write viral articles without having a loved one pass
away. You can write a best-selling book without having a loved one pass
away.
I’m not saying these things need to happen to write something good.
What I’m saying is, things similar to this need to happen for you to write the best words you’ve ever put on paper.
I’ll stand by that until I die.
And
if your “best” isn’t associated with any crippling event RIGHT NOW, you
simply haven’t lived long enough/tried hard enough to express what you
feel in these life-changing moments.
You need to try.
Not for the views, or the fans, or being remembered.
You need to try because your soul deserves to express itself.
There’s
a very particular song your heart sings in moments of dramatic
change — you owe it to yourself to put that feeling on paper.
It
will be your finest hour, and more importantly it will help you cope in
ways a conversation with a counselor, a best friend, or a parent
couldn’t replicate.
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