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Writers Can All be Winners
If we look for ways to help rather than compete we stand a better chance of crossing our personal finish line
It happened again. Here I am hard at work on a story I’m really proud of when I take a break to do some reading. There it is on my home page. A story about the exact same subject. Yikes!
Does this happen to you? You think you are being all original and crushing it only to see another writer beat you to it.
“There is nothing new under the sun,” said the prophet in the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes. Nothing new in my writing I say to myself in my dark moments.
If only there weren’t so many other writers out there. How do I gain any traction when there is all this competition. How do I rise to the top?
If you treat writing as a horse race with one winner, a few who place, and a bunch of losers, you are likely going to lose. There are a lot of horses out there.
Why not change the narrative? You’re a writer after all. Write the reality you want.
What if your goal isn’t just getting over that finish line to gather all the prizes and glory for yourself while the also-rans stand panting, exhausted, and dejected nearby. What if your goal is to get as many horses over the finish line as possible. What if there isn’t just one prize but a variety of…
