Here’s what I love about publishing.
You’ll never find a group of people who want something so badly. Many of us grew up wanting to be authors or we’ve acquired a deep desire to tell stories for a living. The collective inspiration and aspiration gives me joy pennies for days. I love being around people who want things deeply.
We understand how to sacrifice for what we want. Nothing that comes easy lasts. Doing this for our lifetime requires the willingness to tolerate setbacks and the resilience to handle disappointment, failure, and adversity.
Nowhere will you find a group of people who get the black moments of life more fully than writers. Yes, we may resist it, and we may not always like (or even recognize) the black moments when we’re in them, but because we write transformational stories, we see that there’s always a tool or a transformation in the middle of despair.
We will face the storm. And we will face it together. There’s nothing quite like the found family trope to inspire us to reach out for the friend or the lifeline.
I’ve been trying to write a post for awhile about why I’m hopeful about the future of publishing. I keep coming back to the truth that this isn’t multi-level-marketing. This is a lifelong career. There’s going to be adversity. There’s going to be failure. There’s going to be pain.
But we tell transformational stories for a living. We know what comes after the black moment. Yeah, we might have to drop the mask of our false self (like the Michael Hauge six-stages inner journey). Yeah, we might have to lose things, but if the end game is to be an author for our lifetime… no one can take that away from us anymore.
As much as we are pain averse, and as much as we don’t like failure, we are also a group of the most resilient and courageous people in the world. These stories of transformation get into our blood stream and inspire us to face the storm together.
That’s what I love about publishing. I love all of you, and how connected we all are, and how much we want to tell stories for a living together. To be authors for our lifetime.
Off to open my manuscript.
– Becca