Monday Motivation - Your Inner Writer
How Writers Write by HappyWriter
English - December 14, 2020 09:00 - 3 minutes - 2.38 MB - ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsFiction Education How To writing writing tips writing inspiration inspiration author interviews authors mfa how to write Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to Monday Motivation - Your Inner Writer
By far, the most common question I am asked when I am working one-on-one with writer, is "how do I know if I am even a writer?" And, it is so common because anyone who has ever tried to write has asked themselves this question.
So let me dive right in and answer you.
If you have a burning desire to tell stories, you are a writer. Full stop.
I believe stories don't just come from anywhere, they come from the true writer that lives inside of you. This writer is a version of you. A small slice of your entirety. In fact, you have many different versions of you. You might be a friend, a parent, a worker of some kind, a spouse, an athlete, a writer.
And think about it, you move between these versions of you when you need them. Especially now... you might be on a Zoom call as the "professional" version of you, and then gets stuck in the bathroom and all of a sudden you switch into parent version.
The point here is that you daren't one thing. You are a zillion different things.
The thing is, for many people, the writer is buried under a mound of limiting beliefs, uninspiring goals, poor time management, and misaligned values. The writer is inside of you. You are a writer, it's just that you might lack the strategies you need to bring your writer to the surface.
And so you can put the question to rest, and instead of spending your precious life energy on asking this question, and looking for some kind of external validation, instead invest that energy into building the strategies you need to live as your true, wild, resourceful and whole inner writer.
So much of the writing life is learning to become a writer from the inside-out, not just learning how to write.
This idea is the entire reason behind this podcast and HappyWriter. If you want to go deep on this and learn how to unleash your inner writer and rebuild those beliefs and goals and time management strategies, I'd invite you to check us out at HowWritersWrite.com.