Be Yourself... And Remember That Desire Determines Who You Become

Two more tiny lessons for building a creative life of words

Writing in the Dark turns two on December 1!

In celebration of that big birthday, I’m sharing, over the next week and a half (here and on Notes), a few short and slightly updated tiny lessons from the in-depth two-part series (Part One, Part Two) I wrote last year on how I built Writing in the Dark (and, more broadly, the principles underlying my entire creative life). Writing in the Dark has more than tripled in size since this time last year, but these core lessons remain the same.

Here are two of the tiny lessons—more to come. ❤️

Be Yourself

In all of life—whether in writing or otherwise—it helps immeasurably to be who you actually are, to let yourself be seen and heard for your true self, and, in that way, to live and write as only you can.

What does that mean? To write what as only you can?

Well, only you can answer that.

But, it is a question worth dwelling on, entering into, sitting quietly (or fitfully) inside of until you feel your way to an answer. For me, being myself means man…