You should do this…
Am I Not Good at Receiving Writing Feedback, or Afraid of an Echo Chamber?
The funny thing about being a writer is that everyone has a lot of advice about what I should or should not write. Not only readers — I actually love hearing from readers — but also the new editors that I’m pitching and trying to convince to publish my work. Submitting articles and being rejected is probably my least favorite thing I’ve ever done. And I’m doing more of it as I attempt to grow and expand my writing life. So that’s fun.
“How To articles get a lot more interest and clicks — you should write those,” they say. Except I’m not actually interested in telling you how to do anything. What I want to write is what it’s like in this journey of life, how it feels while we are trying to do anything that is meaningful. Do you want to change the world to be a better place for our kids? I do too. It’s hard, right? Exhausting sometimes. How do we keep going despite the onslaught of a society in which people have forgotten how to listen to each other, or speak to each other with ethical, balanced logic?
Sometimes I don’t want to change the world. Sometimes I want to write about things that are more mundane. Like when we need our kids to actually do some chores around the house so we can find time to make the world a better place, or holy cow just some time and space to sit and be and not…
