Every Writer Has A Book In A Box

"It took a lifetime to become the writer I am now"

Most of us come into this world a "tabula rasa" however, the body has a different type of memory. The black slate is impacted by generations of ancestors and pain. It just might take a lifetime to become the person we were meant to be. I have been reflecting on this for an entire week now. When the writing is stagnant and the kettle calls. I sit with the silence thinking and often over thinking. I know I am not alone.

I do believe that every writer has a secret book in a box. A creation that they keep out of fear of rejection or falling. This falling is the rise and followed by a sudden thud. We are fearful of not only failing we are fearful of showing up and not being seen for who we truly are. We are afraid that we will be seen as an imposter, a fraud and even more important we are afraid that we will believe that we are imposters in our skin. We may fear that the work that we do is not our own and it is some magic that happens when the planets align.

This type of imposter syndrome is tragic the opposite of magic. Perhaps most creatives are born out of trauma and the creativity is the medicine. If this is the case we also come with thin skin and tragic lines. The imposter is another character in our book a real character.

Not all good writers are dead. Some of us are very much living and striving to make a living if we can rise above that imposter syndrome and be that great writer we are meant to be.

If you are writer with a box under your bed you are not alone. That piece of work needs to be set free. Books and art are not birds that are caged they are meant to fly free. Even wounded birds fly and the wounded writer needs to write to be free.

How do we set our work free? How do we become that person that we are holding back? This is my final thought before pouring the tea. So this I leave with you my friends. This I leave with you.

It is time to return to writing that book.