Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgement difficult.
—Hippocrates (460-400 B.C.)
A woman in my class once told me that she was unhappy that her classmates. She said that they did not understand her writing.
“It never happened. It was fiction. They just don’t get me,” she said.
It reminded me of my own critique classes where I got a whole gamut of different responses to a single piece of writing. Some people said a metaphor was great while others said it was cliche and I could do better.
Who do I believe?
A long time ago I came across some words of advice by a writer. It makes complete sense when dealing with a critique of your writing.
Essentially the writer advised , “don’t want everyone to read it.”
We are all from different backgrounds and have many different life experiences.
We also have different tastes.
What you write will not appeal to everyone. Not everyone who reads your work will understand it, and not everyone will like it.
But that’s OK.
Any comments made constructively and respectfully can be helpful to a writer. In the end, the writer gets to decide what to do with those comments.
It doesn’t mean that you should stop writing or that you are a bad writer.
The most important thing we can do is to be brave enough to write our stories and to write what’s in our heart. The more we write, the better we get. That’s what counts.
Our words will also connect to someone. But only if we write them.
Always believe that writing matters.
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? 
You should believe me! Lol!
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