Every Writer Is a Gardener
Stop waiting for the seeds of your success to bloom — your season is coming
Behold the Portland Rose. I captured this snapshot last summer. The most significant feature of this snapshot is the fact that although the flower in the center has fully bloomed, there are still some roses attached to it that need more time to flourish.
And this is the writing process.
Let’s be honest, we all want to be successful, especially those of us busting our asses here on Medium. To me, every writer is a gardener. Every article we put out is a seed of thought we plant on the same blogs we tend to like gardens.
It becomes very frustrating when certain seeds don’t develop as you’d hoped they would. It‘s’ even more discouraging when you’ve miscalculated the harvest your hard work should’ve brought in. Especially when fellow gardeners seem to be growing a steady supply of healthy crops.
Be patient; it’s not your season yet. Just because you would like to bloom doesn’t mean it’s your time to do so. It also doesn’t mean that you can pressure yourself to do so. It simply isn’t your season.
Yet.
It took me two years to complete this article.
And sometimes, that’s the process.
Our minds are intimate places. The reality is that if this article was supposed to be ready sooner, it would have been. Writing is a creative process, but it is still a process.
All functions of the writing process; from the idea to publishing a carefully crafted masterpiece, have their own role and timeline. There is a time to brainstorm, prepare, work, publish, promote, rest, and succeed.
As with a garden, there is a time to plant your seeds, water them, watch them grow, and eventually harvest your hard work. You can’t rush a plant’s growth. You can’t rush your own. If it isn’t your season, it simply isn’t your season. But it will be.
Premature interference can easily cause an incoming blessing to wither and die under the wrong circumstances. Each of your unique steps must be in accordance. Creation takes the time it takes. Every part of your creative process has its own time frame.
Embrace wherever you are in your writing process.
Billy Joel said it best in his song Vienna:
You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
Don’t rush yourself to be greater than you have to be.
You have enough time to reach your creative destinations. You have more time than you think you have. Remember, this is a process, so stop blaming yourself for having one. Our creativity has its own schedule.
Embrace where your writing process is because you’re on your own creative time frame. This is your pace, this is your process, and pretty soon, it will be your time. So have patience. Stop rushing; it’s not time for you to bloom yet. Your season of success is coming.
You will flower.
The seeds have already been planted.
But if my words are still not enough, maybe Billy Joel can say it better:
Thank you for reading ❤
© Linda Sharp 2024. All Rights Reserved.
Read This Writer
Back at it again with another poetic banger is Chrysa Stergiou with an ode to women across the globe with Woman’s Day.
I can’t say too much about this work of art because, as a woman, I can tell you it was an experience that made me feel seen, especially in the places I hid myself from view. From the stories I’ve never told, to the painful secrets I keep, to the places where my femininity has been wounded.
This is a masterpiece you actually have to sit with.
You need to ingest this on your own and take it in as Chrysa tells multitudes of stories in one go. I have to shout out this courageous woman’s work because it’s only right to usher in Women’s Day with her heartfelt message.
Happy Women’s Day Ladies ❤
✍ — Published by DR Rawson — The Possibilist at Dancing Elephant Press. Click here for guidelines to post click here.
