Showing posts with label Writers Put Down the Measuring Stick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writers Put Down the Measuring Stick. Show all posts

Saturday, April 8, 2023

Writers, Put Down the Measuring Stick and Rediscover Your Writing Joy


by Beth Vogt @BethVogt

A writer-friend emailed me to say she’d read my 2018 women’s fiction novel, Things I Never Told You. I was happy to hear she loved it. I also appreciated it when she shared several specific passages she liked. And then she ended the email with, “Oh, Beth, if only I could write like you.”

*Blush*

My response? 

“Don’t worry about writing like me—it’s hard enough for me to do that.” Then I said, “You write like you.”