Writers Rewrite!
“Writers write and rewrite!”
Come the last few months of my university career I used to hear my professors and lecturers repeat this phrase over and over again, and to tell you the truth, I cringed every time I heard it.
Do they?! Really?! So, you’re telling me ideas and creativity can’t just flow through you like a channeled gift from God?!
Haha! As if!
Now that I’m a little more ‘seasoned,’ older, and a heck of a lot wiser, I get it because just like writing,
Life takes work!
I think to a lot of people out there the above statement is almost, well, shocking! For like it or not, we’re living in an instantaneous world where everything, I’m talking everything, is just one click away! So, to fully wrap your head around the idea that you’ll have to put in ‘the man-hours’ if you want to see something through to fruition is more or less ‘crazy’ sounding!
I know for myself the idea of having to work at writing, let alone my life, took a while, maybe more like years to fully sink in. You see the older I got the more I realized that if I’m ever going to be that writer I’d always envisioned in my head, I’d have to jump in with both feet and, well, work hard to make my dreams become a reality!
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So here I am, on the verge of great things! October marks the month of me starting to work with my online digital marketing crew, look out world because here comes Frankly Speaking! Am I excited? Yes! Am I scared? You betcha’! I’m scared because I realize that this next phase in the growth of my business will encompass everything that was ingrained in me during my final few weeks of university, and if I’m honest with myself I’m scared because I know things will get uncomfortable, they always do!
You see, since starting this writing venture, a little over a year ago, there have been some ideas that have worked and those that haven’t. I’ve had days where I thought,
‘What the heck am I even doing?’
And days where I thought,
‘Ah forget it, this is too tough!’
And yet through it all, I always find myself going back to those two little words that were engrained in me,
“Writers rewrite.”
While there is a big part of me that wishes this weren’t so, I know it’s true. I personally like to think of this saying in regards to my life and the plans I make. Okay, yes I’m a self-admitted dreamer, so when things don’t play out the way I envision them, I take it as a gentle reminder from the universe that it’s time to ‘re-write.’ So for me, having the guts to actually want to hire people to help me, was more or less the start of my official Frankly Speaking rewrite!
Quite honestly though, work or not, it takes a lot of courage for me to admit that something isn’t working. And since starting Frankly Speaking I’ve realized that yes, I can do a lot on my own but without the proper knowledge, skill or know-how, I either have to invest the time to learn or get back to the drawing board and crank out a rewrite. This time around, I’m choosing to re-write!
