60 Seconds Daily of Writerly Inspiration and Perspiration
Inspiration
Unleaded - Podcast #40 (You Are Not Alone)
One of the toughest things about writing is feeling that your are unoriginal; that you have nothing to say that hasn’t been said before. Don’t let that stop you. This episode of Unleaded talks about the anxiety associated with the pressure to “be original.”
Audio File: Unleaded - Episode #40 (You Are Not Alone)
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Welcome to Unleaded Fuel for Writers, this is Renee Brown with your 60 seconds of writerly inspiration and perspiration.
I just wanted to tell you, you are not that hopeless or strange that someone else had not already come up with the angst you are currently struggling with. The world does not work that way. All that can be written has been written and all that can be angsted has been angsted…you and I are latecomers to the page and we are doomed (thank goodness) to repeat what others that have gone before us have already done. This means that there can be no thing out there, no problem or issue or character or plot device that has not already been wrestled with and in most cases slain.
So give yourself some breathing room today, take a minute to feel the authors of Christmas past nodding along with your struggles and know that even the Dream King himself has doubted his stories and talents before.
If you have any inspirations you’d like to share, please visit us on the web at http://www.dayalmohamed.com/unleaded in the mean time keep on writing.