Reminding Myself…

[cathschaffstump]

It seems important to me to reiterate to myself, so I will.

You write what you write. You can only make what you write better. You can't write the way other people write. And you often don't write what other people write.

What you write is probably not going to be as commercially successful as some writing is. It is, however, unique, and therein lies its strength. And the current popularity of zombies is probably luck of the draw, anyway.

Don't compare yourself to other writers. Don't puzzle at the taste of others. You've always been a little off beat about what you've liked, anyway. It follows that you might not get the mainstream in taste, and that you won't try to reproduce it in your own work.

Publish or not, popular or not, you write what you write. Just do that. Obscurity aside, your satisfaction lies in being true to the writer you are, for whatever values of career. Be satisfied that you are doing your best work for the moment, and keep ramping up your mad skillz with hard work.

Whatever the outcome of that is. Integrity is important, writer girl.

That's all I have to say today about that.

Catherine

Mirrored from Writer Tamago.