not all writers are poets.
not all poets are right.
your work doesn’t have to have a meaning
to be meaningful. it’s yours. when you write
you write for you. others may like your work
but that’s not the point. you write to have fun.
you write to enjoy life. you write to feel. you write
to explore. you write the thing you wish someone else
had written years ago when you first began reading
and wanted more.
it’s okay to use clichés. it’s okay to cause pain
it’s okay to hurt the reader. it’s okay to write
a sad ending. it’s okay to write a female
knight in shining armor and a dude in distress.
it’s okay to stray from “they lived happily ever after.”
it’s okay to be ambiguous. and it’s okay that creative
work often necessitates artful language and structure but
sometimes not.
independent clauses are nice but so are dependent clauses.
there is a time to stop and there is a time to go. there is a time
for more and there is a time for less. you should never write
“no” when you can write “yes.”
and.
and you must always be ready to hand over the keys of the car.
“Make the plan. Execute the plan. Expect the plan to go off the rails.
Throw away the plan.” the work is yours, but it also belongs
to itself. don’t force it to be something it’s not. not every character
must change. change is something that happens, not something
you do. but what you do is answer questions. you offer an escape.
you offer peace.
What you do is create a new world.
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