Writing is facing your deepest fears and all your failures, including how hard it is to write a lot of the time and how much you loathe what you’ve just written and that you’re the person who just committed those flawed sentences

The strongest writing isn’t born from striving to flawlessly record something the “right” way, but from readiness to expose your real attitude and feelings towards the subject with all their flaws and contradictions. Honesty with readers begins with honesty with yourself.

As for me, I have several “whys”... Why didn’t I have enough courage to publish until a few months ago? Why did I avoid the only calling I’ve ever had: writing? For years, fear held me back – fear of judgment, of not being good enough, of exposing my vulnerability to the world. Writing, my truest form of expression, felt too raw, too personal to... See more