Write What You Know
Learning how to tell my story through a 90 day content creation challenge
Write what you know.
7 days into the 90 day creation challenge for Those That Inspire and I feel so grateful for the community that supports its creators in pushing themselves beyond what they normally would be compelled to do. When I first started to write, I challenged myself to write, for public consumption, once a week. I would spend countless hours researching, reviewing, editing, hacking away at what I had written. It terrified me to share my writing in a public forum because writing was not something I thought I was good at.
I always loved words, but I never loved my own. As an actor, I thought other people’s stories were more interesting, more beautifully expressed, and ten times more relatable than my own. I relished bringing stories to life that I believed mattered, stories that needed to be told. Then, a few years ago, I started to do something that terrified me: I began to tell my own story. At the onset of this year, I joined a group of creators who would speak their truth for 90 days.
This Scares Me
I’m doing the one that scares me the most: writing one article a day and posting it on Medium for all eyes to see. At the end of the 90 days, I hope that truthfulness wins out, that honesty, integrity, compassion, and empathy become the backbone of every word I type.
Uncovering 90 days worth of written content that I feel comfortable sharing on the interwebs is not an easy task. So I will continue to take it back to the basics of human connection: be who you are. Write what you know.
Bringing What I learned from 2018 into this New Year
Much of what 2018 taught me was how to deal with unimaginable heartbreak, dishonesty, and discrimination. It was a transformative year. Even the best people have within them the capability to act thoughtlessly and cruelly. That doesn’t make them bad people, just bad people in the context of my life. The ways in which I was slammed down last year though taught me an incredible lesson about the type of person that I want to be in my relationships with others.
Last year was my year of courage moments, doing things I was terrified of like writing and fully trusting other people with the softest parts of me. This year I’m turning my lessons into blessings. It is the year of tenacity. I refuse to back down or stay down when life deals me some hard upsets.
So here we go. One day and one step at a time.
