What do you know?

In a chance encounter, a writer told me, “write what you know.” At the time, I was sure he just told me what I knew was the answer to a question I had battled with. I felt familiar goosebumps the moment he said it. Maybe it was the way he said it? However, months passed, and I found myself on the same boat, still pondering what I could focus on writing about. Don’t get me wrong, I continued to write what I felt solely for me as I have always done. I could not bring my self to let go of those feelings for other eyes to see or judge. My fear of how my writing will most likely be misinterpreted, or how my words may not be considered good enough got to me.

For me, It wasn’t merely about writing what I knew. I was more worried about how what I knew will be perceived by the people that got to read it. So to play it safe, I continued to write what I knew for my single fan… Me. After all, It is my feelings, experience, thoughts and words. Why do I have to put myself on the chopping block for the pleasure of other people?

I am still till this day trying to put a theme to my writing. I’m still working on pulling the words from all I know and learn from. With the way my head works, I’m confident it will take my whole lifetime to get all I know written. I believe in continuous learning, every new day teaches us something new. My challenge is to write something every day to keep up with the teaching. Writing through experiences and resources or situations I get to learn from is always going to be for me. I am going to have to be confident of being who I portray with my words.

The only constant? I love writing! Why worry about all else?. Not everyone is going to love your creation, that’s a fact! You feel better? Now go create for you and the people out there that need your work!