These words spoke right to my heart. I felt so seen as I too have romanticized this "real writer" and then have felt paralyzed to actually write. Also, I misspell everything. This was a great nudge of encouragement to keep going. Thank you for sharing 🫶
Dani. This is fire. Literal fire 🔥. I can feel the heat coming off your keyboard. This is what we are all thinking and feeling. I needed this, thank you for writing it ❤️
Love, love, love. What an encouragement to read this morning and gentle pushing to get the words out of my head this week and onto a page. Cheers to calling ourselves writers.
Thank you for sharing this! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my blog that remains stagnant and my good intentions (over and over and over again) to *do something* with it. And then I don’t. But lately I’ve been reaching for my journal more often, and even though no one ever sees the things I write there, I’m becoming more willing to claim the fact that writing in that journal makes me as much of a “real writer” as I need to be in this season. ❤️
Dani, I love this! So relatable, including the part about creating and abandoning blogs...!! I think that's partly why I've been dragging my feet in creating a Substack 🙃 Really great encouragement to just WRITE!
Ha!! Yes. I chuckled when I read the line about definitely knowing whether the period goes inside or outside the quotation mark. I like to think I have decent grammar until the second I sit down to write. Thank God for Google.
As someone very new to the writing "world", I plan to take your words to heart. It's funny when you fall in love with something new and start to throw yourself into a certain world wholeheartedly, it is SO easy to get consumed and lost (at least for me, that is my tendency). So maybe not throwing myself too deep into the world of "real writers" may be the healthiest thing 🤷♀️ just some random thoughts over here 😂
I love this. I love your raw honesty here friend! Keep going! I’m with you, I have this idea of what the perfect writer looks like and it is paralysing. We just gotta keep moving otherwise we freeze with fear!
Love this! You, my friend, are a GREAT writer ❤️
Oh Dani I feel this deep in my soul. Yes, a real writer writes!! This felt like a giant permission slip to just keep doing the dang thing!
These words spoke right to my heart. I felt so seen as I too have romanticized this "real writer" and then have felt paralyzed to actually write. Also, I misspell everything. This was a great nudge of encouragement to keep going. Thank you for sharing 🫶
Dani. This is fire. Literal fire 🔥. I can feel the heat coming off your keyboard. This is what we are all thinking and feeling. I needed this, thank you for writing it ❤️
Oh friend, I feel so seen right now. It’s like the nudge I didn’t even know I needed. ♥️
Love, love, love. What an encouragement to read this morning and gentle pushing to get the words out of my head this week and onto a page. Cheers to calling ourselves writers.
Thank you for sharing this! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my blog that remains stagnant and my good intentions (over and over and over again) to *do something* with it. And then I don’t. But lately I’ve been reaching for my journal more often, and even though no one ever sees the things I write there, I’m becoming more willing to claim the fact that writing in that journal makes me as much of a “real writer” as I need to be in this season. ❤️
“Her best friend isn’t the backspace key, but rather the publish key.”
Dang Dani, this is brilliant. Love this essay! Amen friend. ❤️
Dani, I love this! So relatable, including the part about creating and abandoning blogs...!! I think that's partly why I've been dragging my feet in creating a Substack 🙃 Really great encouragement to just WRITE!
Yes, Dani! A real writer writes. 💯 I love how you captured this struggle so many of us are grappling with.
Ha!! Yes. I chuckled when I read the line about definitely knowing whether the period goes inside or outside the quotation mark. I like to think I have decent grammar until the second I sit down to write. Thank God for Google.
I love this, Dani! I too have crafted this "real writer" in my head many times!!
As someone very new to the writing "world", I plan to take your words to heart. It's funny when you fall in love with something new and start to throw yourself into a certain world wholeheartedly, it is SO easy to get consumed and lost (at least for me, that is my tendency). So maybe not throwing myself too deep into the world of "real writers" may be the healthiest thing 🤷♀️ just some random thoughts over here 😂
Love this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"A real writer writes". You nailed this, Dani.
Forget the perception of what you think a writer is. You are one, merely by the fact that you are writing.
I play this same game in my head and recently come to a similar conclusion. I am writing. Therefor, I am a writer.
I love this. I love your raw honesty here friend! Keep going! I’m with you, I have this idea of what the perfect writer looks like and it is paralysing. We just gotta keep moving otherwise we freeze with fear!