Creative Writing And Overcoming The Disease To Please - What Do You REALLY Long To Write?

How much of what you write is actually what you REALLY want to write?

What percentage would you say, of all your creative writing output, is the kind of writing that just burns inside you to get out?

The words you just have to share with the world. The words that reveal and express the real creative you?

90%? 75%? 50% Less than 10%

Many of us spend much of our time writing exactly what it is we think others want to read.

If we’re right, we may get our writing published, and it may well bring a lot of pleasure into the lives of the people who read our books.

That’s all fantastic. Up to a point. But are you writing to be a commercial success? If so, then reaching as many people as possible, and selling as many books as possible is obviously your aim. And so writing what people want to read more of makes a lot of sense.

But what if what you’re producing is not what you REALLY want to be writing? What if it’s actually as far from what your heart and creativity truly desire to express as London is from Melbourne?

Sometimes we get caught in a similar cycle even if we’re NOT finding commercial success with our writing.

We write what we think our partner wants to read, or what we think our mother wants to read.

There comes a point when we need to look out for ourselves. We need to think about what it is we really long to write. What it is we feel we’ve been put on this earth to write. Whether that’s novels, poems, How To guides or software manuals.

Write what’s in the deepest part of you.

Write in the way that is uniquely and amazingly YOU.

The style and the words that no-one else BUT you in the world can write.

Because if you don’t start to do this – even if it’s only a small proportion of what you write in total – you’ll regret it for the rest of your life. You’ll always wonder “What if?” you’d written that novel, that poetry collection, that manual.

So make a start today.

Write a list of the things you’ve always wanted to write, some you may have not even admitted openly before. Then pick one from that list, and write the first line of it. Today. You owe it to yourself.

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