A lot of you wonderful people that follow me are writers too. A...

A lot of you wonderful people that follow me are writers too. A lot of you are poets. A lot of you write me each day asking questions on every possible aspect of writing, but one theme comes up more than any other: how to get your work noticed, how to have an impact with your words. I honestly never know how to answer this, as I am baffled Daily that anything I say, goes anywhere at all, but sometimes you get little reminders of just what impact we have. All of us. @lizodell sent me this photo of her 7th grade Language Arts class, and the project two of her students chose me to study for. Seeing this kind of thing absolutely blows my mind and makes me want to tell all of You, that whether you know it or not, you Are having an impact. Every minute of every day, every poem and every sentence you write. It doesn’t matter if two people or two million read them, it doesn’t matter if the going is slow. Stay the course and write for yourself and people will find them. I promise. Just write. It’s the only advice I keep giving…just write, because it matters. Because you must.