The Valvano Test: Laugh, Think, Cry
The True Test Of a Story
Success as a writer isn’t easy to come by. Then again, maybe it is. It depends on the writer and how deep the writer’s content digs into the readers soul.
Artists who bare their souls for art will likely find success rather easily if the true meaning of the art (writing in our case) is exposed. It’s baring the soul that isn’t always so easy. (Take it from a life-long guitarist that’s very reluctant to sing.) Often it takes some loose screw or outlying circumstance to move a person to expose that essential art to the extent that it touches others.
You may think this doesn’t apply to the “content” writers, the writers who write for others. Yet the job they’re tasked with involves moving someone to feel something, make a choice, think a certain way, influence. Music is used in advertising to set a mood, so it also is attempting to reach the consumer in a subtle, emotional way.
MarkfromBoston 🐾🍻 posed the question about success as a writer in “3 Measures of Successful Stories”. It made me think. (AH! Success!!)
