How Anyone Can Write Books, Even If They Don’t Believe They Can
By following the curiosity’s lead
Back in 2013, I looked at my wishes and discovered I had a big dream — looming and raising its head above water for some time but previously pushed aside and hidden — to write and share my writing.
At the same time, I had the idea that I didn’t want to write a book. I didn’t consider a short story (which I had gathered some practice at writing by then) to be a book, and writing a novel appeared daunting and time-consuming. I thought I couldn’t be as patient as other authors and wait that long until my books were published.
I wanted to share immediately after creating something. Starting a blog was the solution.
A story looming
Around this time, I read a German translation of the book Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg and found there the following words:
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
There was one story that surfaced again and again. At first, I thought it was my sad story of having lost my father when I was ten years old…
