on the power of showing up
note: I wrote this post in April of 2019 (pre-COVID). It's been sitting in my drafts for quite a while, but I think it's time for it to see the light of day. It's been helpful for me to reread over the past few months, especially as I continue to try to make an effort to write, and I hope it can be helpful to you, too. i got an invite to a writers' group a few months ago, and i had never felt like more of a fraud in my life. it had been months, if not years, since i'd felt like a writer. the proverbial well of words in my heart had dried up, it seemed, and i wasn't sure if it was ever coming back. i agreed to go out of a sense of helplessness—i'd identified as a writer ever since i could remember. if i'm not a writer, who am i? i told myself that it was important to show up and act like a writer even when i didn't feel like one, because even though i hadn't been writing, i reassured myself, i still was a writer. but sometimes the words f
That trailer is downright awesome!!! You guys rock, in my honest opinion. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, and you got your menu bars to work! Awesome! <3
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOSH!! Congratulations, that super cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEE!!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the trailer!! I love how you used the music from Prince Caspian and OMG I hope your script get's turned into a movie that'd be AWESOME!!! Okay, I'm just really excited for y'all right now. Yay!! Yay!! Yay!! :))
ReplyDelete-Jocee <3
Congratulations on the script!
ReplyDeleteThe video was downright awesome too!
Congratulations! That trailer is *amazing!*
ReplyDelete& Writing stuff with friends makes it 10 times as awesome :)