You are a writer. You didn\u2019t choose to be one, but it was born into you\u2014a spirit as old as dwelled in the storytellers around the first fires. A kindred to prophets, philosophers, and visionaries. That old fire is inside of you, burning its way out, and if you don\u2019t write it down, it will find another way. Like every force of nature, it will find a way out. So write your little heart out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rest of the world doesn\u2019t get you, and you don\u2019t really belong to it. You\u2019re not one of them and you never will be. You don\u2019t think alike, and they know it. Your speech is strange to their ears, your anecdotes are odd, your propensity toward reflection and solitude confuses them. Your obsession with words is just weird. So write your little heart out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life brings hard times, even in the best of them. You\u2019ll get passed over, ignored, hurt, and beaten down. People will betray you, lie, cheat, and steal from you. You\u2019ll work yourself to the bone in a never-ending cycle of work, sleep, eat, and repeat. You\u2019ll be a success at all the things that bring you no joy, and you\u2019re not alone as we all tread out this grind in the world. The people around you will find their ways to cope, throwing themselves into work, exercise, and play, but as for you \u2014 you write your little heart out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ever since you were young, even the little things moved you. The joy of sunsets, the emotions of others, the magic of books. Your life is your story, and as it got recorded in your mind, you remembered every detail like a treasured book. The successes, the failures, the hurts, and the victories\u2014all written down in the chapters of your life. A river so massive that nothing can stop it. You dwell on the past, and the story that is you because it is story that drives you. So write your little heart out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You are a writer. You didn\u2019t choose to be one, but it was born into you\u2014a spirit as old as dwelled in the storytellers around the first fires. A kindred to prophets, philosophers, and visionaries. That old fire is inside of you, burning its way out, and if you don\u2019t write it down, it will find another way. Like every force of nature, it will find a way out. So write your little heart out. The rest of the world doesn\u2019t get you, and you don\u2019t really belong to it. You\u2019re not one of them and you never will be. You don\u2019t think alike, and they know it. Your speech is strange to their ears, your anecdotes are odd, your propensity toward reflection and solitude confuses them. Your obsession with words is just weird. So write your little heart out. Life brings hard times, even in the best of them. You\u2019ll get passed over, ignored, hurt, and beaten down. People will betray you, lie, cheat, and steal from you. You\u2019ll work yourself to the bone in a never-ending cycle of work, sleep, eat, and repeat. 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