Call for Submissions — Using your life as inspiration
As a writer, we find inspiration from a lot of places. A lot of that inspiration makes its way into our writing. But what happens when the inspiration for your writing is your own life?
For this week’s call for submissions, we’d like you to answer this question: how comfortable are you with using your own life as inspiration for your writing?
There are different ways to think about this. Using your life as inspo can be as detached as including the character traits of a person you saw at the library. That person is not connected enough to your life for it to matter.
But what about when your writing more directly reflects your life? What if you’re sharing stories about your personal experiences? How far do you go? How vulnerable do you allow yourself to be in front of your readers?
That’s what this submission request is about. How do you get to a place where sharing about your life is a comfortable proposition?
Same rules as always:If you’re already a writer for CRY, go ahead and submit.If you’re not a writer for CRY but would like to submit to this request, let us know and we’ll add you ASAP.Be as creative as you want in your submissions. As long as you stick to the topic, we’ll consider it.Just because you submit doesn’t mean we’ll post. If you haven’t heard back from us in three days, consider that a pass.The deadline to submit is Monday, May 3rd, 2021.Please reach out if you have any questions at all. If you are new to Medium, here’s how you submit a draft to a publication.
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