Hi Nicole, thanks for the first of the 100! This message prompts me more now, as I am getting older. I wasn’t sure if I had a gift and started writing so late (I was in my late thirties). I thought
I could be suffering delusional thoughts in assuming I could be a writer.
It doesn’t come naturally for me. After studying to write in the early noughties, I found myself wondering why there has been no paid writing work, and only a few successes. That type of thought pattern gave me more writer’s blocks, than not.
Now, twenty years later, I still haven’t found much success, yet I have this inkling that it is my calling.
I know what I need to do, so I hope I don’t waste anymore time wondering - and just keep doing it!
Ohhhhh this is a good one. 100%. With the number of times I've been French-kissed by death I've lived with this theory for a long time. Then in 2020 I got hammered by 9 months of death dreams that told me I don't have as much time as I think I do. Every nap, every night, sometimes multiple times. So how will I share my gifts? I guess by sharing the story of those dreams and what it did to my life, which includes the links to the gifts I started shoving out into the world before I felt they were "ready" as a result of these dreams. So they wouldn't die inside me. Muah!!!
This strikes me pretty close to my own journey right now. Diagnosed with terminal cancer last year, I realized I was most likely going to die before I realized a lot of projects would see the light of day. It was a depressing realization.
And then I got all Isaac Asimov about it. Not necessarily about typing faster, mind you, but in the realization that I couldn't continue to let fear stop me. So now, I won't. I muse, write bad poetry, write mushy romances, Urban Fantasy, Space Opera, LitRPGish fantasies...it's a no-holds barred free-for-all with my creativity.
With Death hanging so close, I no longer have the luxury of holding myself back.
Thank you for this reminder. While I may not need it, many other writers do.
The gift is doing what you love and have passion for, and exposing it to the world to get (whoever wants to get it of course). For me is also teaching. I've aalway wanter to write a book (non-fiction) that taught something, and years ago I decided to start writing it and I set my mind into finishing it before I died (whenever that is). My book is fully drafted, and getting ready to (self) publishing. When will it be out? No lo se, but what I know is that I felt (dreamed) that I had something to say (to teach) -a gift to give in the form of a book (and newsletter) and I wasn't waiting for a miracle or for later for it to happen. My gift has been given the form of teaching, training, rehab aiding, cooking, writing and and by helping others at the cost of money itself (and a lot of headaches) and in the form of a newsletter and and upcoming book. "Don't die with your gifts still inside". 🖖🏽
Hi Nicole, thanks for the first of the 100! This message prompts me more now, as I am getting older. I wasn’t sure if I had a gift and started writing so late (I was in my late thirties). I thought
I could be suffering delusional thoughts in assuming I could be a writer.
It doesn’t come naturally for me. After studying to write in the early noughties, I found myself wondering why there has been no paid writing work, and only a few successes. That type of thought pattern gave me more writer’s blocks, than not.
Now, twenty years later, I still haven’t found much success, yet I have this inkling that it is my calling.
I know what I need to do, so I hope I don’t waste anymore time wondering - and just keep doing it!
this is a nice sentiment- to try to share gifts. I tend to think, though, that if people valued what I had to say I'd get more feedback, lol.
Ohhhhh this is a good one. 100%. With the number of times I've been French-kissed by death I've lived with this theory for a long time. Then in 2020 I got hammered by 9 months of death dreams that told me I don't have as much time as I think I do. Every nap, every night, sometimes multiple times. So how will I share my gifts? I guess by sharing the story of those dreams and what it did to my life, which includes the links to the gifts I started shoving out into the world before I felt they were "ready" as a result of these dreams. So they wouldn't die inside me. Muah!!!
https://open.substack.com/pub/bellanthebeastie/p/death-dreams
This strikes me pretty close to my own journey right now. Diagnosed with terminal cancer last year, I realized I was most likely going to die before I realized a lot of projects would see the light of day. It was a depressing realization.
And then I got all Isaac Asimov about it. Not necessarily about typing faster, mind you, but in the realization that I couldn't continue to let fear stop me. So now, I won't. I muse, write bad poetry, write mushy romances, Urban Fantasy, Space Opera, LitRPGish fantasies...it's a no-holds barred free-for-all with my creativity.
With Death hanging so close, I no longer have the luxury of holding myself back.
Thank you for this reminder. While I may not need it, many other writers do.
I don’t know how I have drawn a blank
The gift is doing what you love and have passion for, and exposing it to the world to get (whoever wants to get it of course). For me is also teaching. I've aalway wanter to write a book (non-fiction) that taught something, and years ago I decided to start writing it and I set my mind into finishing it before I died (whenever that is). My book is fully drafted, and getting ready to (self) publishing. When will it be out? No lo se, but what I know is that I felt (dreamed) that I had something to say (to teach) -a gift to give in the form of a book (and newsletter) and I wasn't waiting for a miracle or for later for it to happen. My gift has been given the form of teaching, training, rehab aiding, cooking, writing and and by helping others at the cost of money itself (and a lot of headaches) and in the form of a newsletter and and upcoming book. "Don't die with your gifts still inside". 🖖🏽