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3 Ways to Share Vulnerable Writing Without Throwing Up
“How do I know when what I want to share is inappropriate or will be looked at as unprofessional or TMI?” This’s the most common question in my writing workshops. And it’s based on old, conditioned beliefs that your real, raw, vulnerable and sometimes intensely traumatic experiences are inappropriate, unprofessional, or otherwise going to make you look bad to potential clients.
Time to believe something better.
I don’t want you to write something brilliant, and then share it and feel like your insides are about to come out. But you probably will the first time you do it. And that’s okay because…
“To be a great writer you have to do and write scary things.” Jon Morrow
Do you need to know every gory detail of all the pain I’ve been through, including the most humiliating stuff? Maybe not.
If I share something so vulnerable that you read it with tears streaming down your face because I’m the first person you’ve read who was brave enough to share a story that is yours too — then is it too much?
Right.
Think about it for a moment. Who made up the rules about what’s too much to share? And why did they make them? To protect the author? The reader…
