Truth

Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is —Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

The truth will set you free. Odds are against any one of us. Really, it is. To be noticed. To be accepted. To be published. To make a living writing. And with the economy as it is—well, that chance just got that much harder.

I, for one, have decided it isn’t worth the heartache. I’ve let the dream go. Just let it go. Accepted the truth. Accepted the facts in front of me. Few are chosen. Fewer make money. The economy has gone south, the market tightened. It’s bound to tighten even more. The dream of getting your novel published, your article sold is ever farther away.

Hey, TiGi, what ya doing here? Isn’t this blog supposed to build writers up? Give us hope? Give us inspiration? You’re killing us here.

Wait. Truth does set you free. If the possibility of getting published is ever farther away—Why not write for yourself? For the fun, the enjoyment and the love of writing? Just that. Bring all the joy and freedom you had once back. Stop writing for publication. Stop trying to be accepted by that editor who is looking for what’s selling big. Stop trying to compete with writers like James Patterson or Nora Roberts.

Write just for little old you. Ignore all the ought-to’s and should-have articles, the how-to books telling you how to get published. Just write. What does it matter? Write your book, your story, your article. Write however you want.

Impossible sets you free.

What would you write and how if you weren’t worried about success or getting published? Could you soar? I think, maybe so.

So—let’s.

I think we get so caught up in what we need to do to get published, to get accepted that we lose the very thing we love most about writing. Then, in tiny, small ways our writing becomes stilted and cold. Maybe, we should write to save ourselves, for ourselves. In doing that, I think our writing will be that much better. That much more true and real.

And you know what? They’re going to want that, those publishers looking for the next great thing. That’s the truth.