Are you really what you write about?

Sarah Apuu
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Hello lovelies. I recently took time to reflect on the feedback I got after posting two parts of a story. The main question asked was: “is this really about you or is it just fiction?”; and each time I answered no and took time to engage the person fully, I always got the “you know people write more about what they often think about” line. So my question is are you really what you write about?

How much can a person discover out of your social media page? Do you really pour forth what’s on your mind or do you write to impress a couple of people around you? Do you write to fulfil a need or desire? Well this brings us onto something else: Are you writing because you’re lonely and need your deepest feelings to be heard? Does your writing satisfy you or does it further create an even deeper need? Does the pleasure people derive from your work give you any other form of validating joy?

Relatively writing on another note, I believe your writing should give you pleasure and for it to do so, it must be about things you think about, love and enjoy (even if you’re writing for just validation). So yes, maybe indeed we write about what really is deep within.

But then again in another retrospect, we write about what we feel passion for: love, guns, solutions to crimes, fantasies… you name it. For it to pour forth, you must have imagined it, lived it in your head, dreamed it.

What am I saying? Yes! You are why you write about but not just in detail. Some aspect of your book or written work, no matter how little and in what chapter, is a functional part of you!

You have a contrary opinion? Well feel free to drop it ;)

    Sarah Apuu

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    The world is already a sorrowful place; no meed trying to invent any more of it!