Want to Change the World with Your Words?

Image courtesy of Kookkai_nak/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net There has never been a better, freer, more empowering time to be a writer.  Because of the internet you can now publish whatever you want, whenever you want.

But with this freedom comes the ultimate challenge for us writers: if we can say whatever we want, whenever we want, we have to figure out what it is we want to say.



Before this question was a much smaller one: not easier, just smaller.  Our task was to think up words someone else would publish.

The gatekeepers are gone if we want them to be.  Freedom arrived with the Publish Now button.  And so did choice and responsibility. 

A lot of writers are still thinking like this moment hasn’t arrived.  They’re still thinking and writing like they need someone’s permission.  Which means they aren’t thinking about what they want to say. 

I want you to think about your message.  What is it you were born to say?  Spend some time thinking about what your deepest beliefs are, about how you would like the world to be and how you can be a part of that change.

Because as a writer you now have that power.