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The One Goal Every Writer Should Have
The best way to help someone is by sharing your truth.
I have a lot of goals as a writer, but there’s one goal that stands out and matters to me more than the rest. That goal is to become a real writer. As in, a writer who talks about her experiences openly; someone transparent, vulnerable, and honest.
I want to inspire and help people, but more than anything, I want to help people feel less alone. It’s with honest stories and through sharing my own experiences, struggles, and problems that I will achieve that.
There’s no doubt that writing about what hurts, your most difficult experiences in life, and the topics that truly matter to you is hard, but those articles — the ones where writers speak their truth — are the ones that stick with me.
I love them because I can connect with them on a deeper level. They make me feel less alone and that I’m not strange or weak for feeling what I feel. Those articles remind me it’s okay to have the doubts, fears, and insecurities I have.
Tesia Blake said it perfectly in her article, “Write about Your Own Feelings If You Want Readers to Relate.” She said:
That’s the beauty of a story, it connects us to one another not through the details of what happened, but through the feelings we…
