As soon as the idea came to me, sometime in February, I knew that I had to write it, but I put it on the back burner to focus on more practical and pressing matters: housework, making money, etc. One of my favorite YouTubers said something that struck a chord in me, "You're going to be stuck forever" (if you don't act on your goals and dreams now). The next time the inspiration nagged at me, I instinctively tried to shove the idea back into a drawer for later, and a funny thing happened: I heard her say that line in my head. Again, I tried to tell myself that I had other, more important things to do, and again, I heard her voice calling me out, "That's a scarcity mindset." So I sat down and wrote the first draft, and then I cried because I had finally done it, finally written a children's book as I'd always dreamt of doing--and finally found my voice. Writing the book was the easy part. As a survivor of trauma myself, I knew already what...
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