Who WERE you, and who are you now?

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When you first start out your memoir or other nonfiction project, you have in mind a goal, maybe simply to write your story.

But that is not what happens.

Your story may be about how you went through a significant experience. Your premise may be about how things are, and how your ideas may make for a better world, even if in your sliver of reality.

But writing your story or idea is not a transcription service.

One does not simply tell their story and be done with it.

Writing the story changes you the author. As you’re writing it.

You may have gone through the other side of your experience and are now wiser.

But you are always growing. Especially when you’re writing.

Writing confronts you. The act itself questions your story, your take on a situation. It cross examines you at every turn, every word choice, every decision.

We have tools to make this easier. A thesaurus provides a bounty of word selections for every possible word that you write. A web search helps you with the research to back up your arguments, the details that make your story vivid. A list of writing rules that you can follow or consciously, purposefully break. A coach to guide you and hold you accountable. An editor to polish your work. A marketer to catapult you.

But in the end, it all comes down to you.

Your knowledge.
Your experience.
Your intuition.
Your gut instinct.
Your drive.
Your knowing.

Writing tests you in all of these areas.

Are you good enough? Smart enough? Bold enough? Committed enough?

Be bold. Be who you are, knowing you will gain new insights about yourself and your story or premise along the way.

You will become a new person by the end of it.

If you need accountability, or someone to finesse your words, or write it for you, DM me.

Let’s chat.