Letter to Creatives

Dear Authors,

We are all not gong to be a William Shakespeare or Marshall Mathers with our wordsmith and plot expertise. Those slots are only designated for the far and few between. Lucky for use there are plenty of artists that are still successful without being at the top of the game. Some of us are going to have to fight pre-existing boundaries. Regardless of bank account balance all creatives come up against the most devious of adversaries, doubt.

This a letter to all those who dream about creating their legacy in the syllables of language and the immortality of prose. The road may be swift and direct for some for others, like myself, the path is a protracted twist of roundabouts and game changes. No two paths will be made of the same tale and regardless of financial outcome connected to success, success will perform differently for each character.

I write this speck of advice to all aspiring and functioning authors. Success is going to be defined differently for everyone, understand what you most want to gain from publishing and embody that performance of success. Don't you let anyone else decide what that is suppose to look like, feel like, lived or imagined. Writing was always an outlet for me. Always a love. For me success is sharing my words and inspirations with an audience that seeks to enjoy them. that is what most drove me. I had the stories secured in my hard drive and my gift was to transpose them into print. For the masses or for my solitary friends it mattered not, as it shouldn't for you.

You may have 100 ideas of the type of book you want to write, but your challenge will be to find out what you actually good at writing. Success may be putting a project on the back-burner if it means finding the voice to a new story. When you do find what genre you're good at, just keep writing. Journals, letters, poems, commentary, 60 word posts, review, fan-fiction. I have no idea what it is for you but keep on it. If you haven't found your nitche yet keep at it you have time to find it.

For those with the dream of being a writer but your composition is absolute rubbish, who knows you still may have a shot. I have, as I am sure you have, read a bunch of crap storytellers over the years and they somehow got publishing deals. It's up to you to decide how far you want to take a passion. The opportunities are out there. The options are far broader than they use to be. Knowing what success is to you can be a great gift in understanding every aspect of your life.

Sincerely,

Charmaine Begell