Leave A Compliment
A friend commented that “The internet makes it so easy to be cruel.”
She’s right.
But it also makes it so easy to be kind.
It takes less than a minute to leave a comment on a post, telling a friend the photo they posted (and was clearly proud of) is beautiful or the poem they shared speaks to our soul or the dinner they made looked delicious.
That compliment will change at least one life, make someone’s world a little bit better, a little bit happier.
And isn’t that an amazing power to have, my friends?
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Write Like No One Is Reading
Professional writers usually have a reader (representing a group of readers) in mind when we’re crafting our stories. We live off the earnings from our stories. There has to be a market for them.
This is a bit…restricting. Our characters can’t do or say or think this or that or the reader will put down the story.
My best writing, however, often happens when I write like no one, except myself, will ever read my stories.
That’s how Releasing Rage happened. I wrote that cyborg romance for myself.
And that is what I’m doing with the Super Secret Project. I’m writing it for myself.
If other readers love it and there’s a market for it, great. I’ll be happy the Super Secret Project makes them happy.
(And the Dear Wonderful Hubby will be happy to have the funds for exciting things like…food. – grins)
But it is being written like no one else will ever read it, without this mythical reader’s preferences in my head.
And it has been SO MUCH FUN.
If you can afford the time (and the loss of income), writing buddies, consider writing something (a novel, a short story, a line) purely for yourself.
This might give you joy also.
(smiles)
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