Four years ago I was 27 and working at a marketing job that was “okay”.
One secret of being successful at writing is thatits not really a secret how to be successful at writing.
My brain was bored.
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My best friends brain was bored at her job.
2.You have to do your own thing.
They were basic and safe takes and we just wanted to be our inappropriate, irreverent selves.
We werea blue ocean.
It helped us seem real to our followers who felt a lot of ownership over the site.
think they need to be just like them so that succeed.
Now we have endless second person inspirational/love essays.
I miss zany first person essays.
I also want to be honest about what went into my own presence on the site.
Most people I know dont deal with the emotional highs and lows the really good writers I know do.
If people are beautiful in their pain it is because they first have pain.
My co-blogger and I had some traumatic experiences in college, and we werent popular.
Plus, we were just sensitive girls with anxiety and A Lot of feelings about stuff.
Creators are different, some people just cant create something every day.
Thats fine, but they shouldnt take a job that relies on them having to be creative every day.
Some people are more prolific than others.
Salinger only gave us a few books, Agatha Christie gave us dozens.
I get worried people are wasting their talent trying to be someone else.
Or trying to prove something.
You dont have to write full-time to be a writer.
You might be able to write, but theres also the question of whether youll be good.
And if youre good, theres also the question ofwhether youll bring in enough readers to make money.
In a lot of ways, not having to make money from your writing can be freeing.
I know a lot of freelancers feel this way!
I was living and breathing the work I was creating.
It helped me understand my style in contrast to everyone elses.
The constant is that Iwantedto write and that Idisciplinedmyself to write.
The constant is that I wrote.
