What I've personally found incredibly helpful is to love the story from a place outside of the ego; where you're driven to write not because it's your story with your name on it, but because you want to see it fly as its best self, for the sake of itself and what it might teach. If we're not writing for any approval, real or imagined, what's stopping us from writing truthfully?
Something I think that makes writing especially hard is that unlike any other creative endeavor, the medium of writing is the writing in and of itself.
Art is the expression of an idea or feeling through a medium. With drawing, your medium is paper and pencil. Painting is paint and canvas. Sculpting is a block of marble, or scraps of metal, or a blob of clay. Singing is the human voice, and Dancing is the human body itself. In all of these art forms, you start with a medium and get to turn it into art.
Writing is different. When you sit down to write, there is no medium. You start with absolutely nothing, because the real medium of writing is actually that first draft. You have to have something to *work* with to get to the good stuff. Writing is expressing an idea *inside of another idea*. The content itself is the medium, and the task of writing, the artistry of it, is then re-writing it until it's actually good.
I think that's why the "Write Now, Edit Later" is such a salient point.
What I've personally found incredibly helpful is to love the story from a place outside of the ego; where you're driven to write not because it's your story with your name on it, but because you want to see it fly as its best self, for the sake of itself and what it might teach. If we're not writing for any approval, real or imagined, what's stopping us from writing truthfully?
Great piece, dude!
YES! That mindset makes all the difference! 🙏🏼 Thank you
Something I think that makes writing especially hard is that unlike any other creative endeavor, the medium of writing is the writing in and of itself.
Art is the expression of an idea or feeling through a medium. With drawing, your medium is paper and pencil. Painting is paint and canvas. Sculpting is a block of marble, or scraps of metal, or a blob of clay. Singing is the human voice, and Dancing is the human body itself. In all of these art forms, you start with a medium and get to turn it into art.
Writing is different. When you sit down to write, there is no medium. You start with absolutely nothing, because the real medium of writing is actually that first draft. You have to have something to *work* with to get to the good stuff. Writing is expressing an idea *inside of another idea*. The content itself is the medium, and the task of writing, the artistry of it, is then re-writing it until it's actually good.
I think that's why the "Write Now, Edit Later" is such a salient point.