Success and Failure as a Writer

Success as a writer means putting your thoughts and ideas on paper without holding back. It means being able to express yourself and having the courage to expose it to others to read. Success is having the ability to identify your writing with your person and staying true to you and not what others want to read. It means putting yourself out there in hopes that you can reach out to at least one person, and not reach out to the money behind the cover. Writing successfully means writing with passion, writing for identity, and writing for the love of doing it.

Failure as a writer is more of a difficult thing for me to reflect on. I believe that the only way you can truly fail as a writer is by not writing what you want to write. The second you abide by someone else’s guidelines, I feel as if though the writing with passion is lost, the writing for identity is never met, and the love of doing it fades. It’s hard to say that following someone else’s guidelines is failure because evidently there are usually more than often “rules” we must abide by. However, one of the things a great writer should be able to do is follow these “rules” and still be able to find a connection with him.