“Different strokes for different folks.”
Everyone’s heard this one. How does it apply to writing?
Do what you love and be your own authority. No one can tell you what your style is. The best way to get better at anything is to get involved with your style of doing one thing.
None of us are perfect. Go ahead, create some of the stuff you’re afraid of creating, if that’s what it takes to get in the groove.
Just be people, be family. Be who you really are, and it will be effortless for you to outgrow and outmaneuver criticism, whether that criticism is from outside or inside.
Different strokes for different folks means advice that works for some people may not apply to others.
Yeats said that the critical and the creative impulse are one and the same, so make sure and take full advantage of the creative side of that drive.
By all means, be who you really are. If you are a writer, you’ve got to write. Confront whatever needs to be confronted and do a little more each day. Time is one thing there’s a fixed amount of (and no substitute for). You’ll know you’re really living if you’re getting a little better at being yourself each day.
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