Your Story

It’s hard to be a writer in this day and age. It is hard enough under normal circumstances, where your career depends on a bulk of work and sits on a scale that dances on the fine line between rejection and acceptance. In these trying times, it gets even harder. The few that make their marks have an audience to inspire more work- but that should never stop the many others who are skilled enough to deserve the same praise. Nevertheless, every writer needs inspiration to write, regardless of where it may come from. Perhaps it is the feeling of reverence that one’s words grace the page, or the ability one gets in creating sensory art in the mind and instilling their own images in their readers. Call it ludicrous, but I believe it is time for all writers to frame for themselves a dedication. What is a dedication? It’s that page in the beginning of every book that we turn to by accident to avoid the table of contents. But then we read the small lines on the page covered in flowers. There has been propulsion behind all the greats that make them spend the time and the energy writing their masterpiece, no matter what their stories are about. Sometimes a story is written out of love (sometimes about love), and sometimes just out of inspiration. You can be inspired by love, and you can love your inspiration. Either way, your dedication sitting there can actually carry you through to do your best to describe, react, depict, explain the story. Here's where it all comes together; your dedication means a lot to the people who you write to, and to you to live up to that. Does history inspire you to write an excellent story about the War of 1812? Sure it can! But try keeping a written record of that. You may find that your something just quadrupled in meaning. Now you can eliminate the fear of getting too bored of your story. So don't hold back!

- Adithi

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