You Don’t Need Anything New to Unlock Your Writing Potential
You have more to write from than you know…
I can vividly remember the day I started writing online.
I felt alone and self-conscious.
I wasn’t convinced that I had anything to offer yet. But that was just a lie I was telling myself.
Through taking consistent action, I prevented that lie from holding me back.
You might be telling yourself the same lie.
And I’m going to convince you that it’s not valid.
The belief
Deep down, I believed that I didn’t have much to offer in my writing.
The overarching question that kept coming to me was:
Who are you to be writing?
It’s not like I had a degree in anything related to writing. Sure, I’d done a tiny bit of it in school. But I was no expert by any stretch of the imagination.
I decided to face this belief head-on. Over time, I learned that there was nothing true about it.
It was just my mind’s way of protecting myself.
Why it’s false
After putting out hundreds of stories, I found one thing to be true.
We have more knowledge in our heads than we give ourselves credit for.
You have built up skills over the course of your life.
You might just be taking them for granted.
As we learn and develop new skills, it’s almost as if we forget where we were at the start of our journey. If I were to meet myself from 5 years ago, I could spend hours teaching that guy things.
The me from 5 years ago didn’t have a clue as to what the me from today knows.
Most of us take this for granted though. It’s natural.
There’s something that you know about that other people don’t.
Share that with the world.
It doesn’t have to be a new lesson, technique, or truth. You’ve just got to put your spin on it.
There may be someone out there who would learn best from you and only you. Don’t deprive that soul of your truth.
Pick a few of your skills
Identify a few skills you’ve picked up over the course of your life. They could be anything.
Come up with a few things that you know to be true related to those skills. You could also come up with things you know to be false.
Write about these things. Imagine who you were before you acquired these skills.
What would you tell yourself back then?
What few things would help them in their learning journey?
You (probably) have all the knowledge and information you need within you. You just need to dig deep and figure out what you have to offer.
I was held back when I started writing because I couldn’t clearly see what I could offer.
With some thorough self-reflection about who you are, what you’ve learned, and where you’re going, you can uncover plenty of things to write about.
You need to remember that nobody thinks just like you do or sees the world in the same way that you do.
You’re a 1 of 1.
Accept that. And carry that into your writing.
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