IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO WRITE YOUR STORY
But you need to believe you can
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO WRITE YOUR STORY
But you need to believe you can
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My ideas are not ever meant as a substitute for consulting with a qualified health professional.
I happily own the fact that I’m a believer in intuition, coincidence, and things happening for a reason. If for no other reason than I’ve experienced it so often in my life. The right person, the right solution, the right idea regularly pops up just when I need it the most.
Not to go too overboard with the new-agey stuff, but there really is “big magic” as Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert aptly named her book about inspiration and creativity. Ideas are literally floating around us all of the time, and if you’ve ever read a book, article, or watched a movie and said to yourself, “I could do that,” that means that one of those big magical ideas is trying to latch onto you. Trying to get you to believe in yourself and write that book, article, or script. It’s never too late to do it either.
The secret to believing in the big magic is seeing its connection to everything. It doesn’t have to be a monumental relation, but if you’ll step back and observe, I guarantee you will see some kind of relationship involved in the moment; in the voice in your head saying, “Why, yes. Yes you can write your story.” Be it nonfiction, fiction, memoir, or journal, it’s never too late to write your story.
Listen. Believe. Connect. I won’t go so far as to say that it will automatically be a best seller, but I will swear that you’ll feel better about connecting to the big magic and accepting the assignment to write your story regardless of what time has to say about it. It’s never too late to write your story.
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JOY E. HELD is an author, educator, editor, entrepreneur, and literary citizen responsible for this site and its contents. She is the author of
Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2020)
Writer Wellness Workbook: A Guided Workbook and Journal to Accompany Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2023)
The Mermaid Riot (Fire and Ice YA, 2024) Young Adult Historical Fantasy
She writes spicy historical fiction under a pen name.
She is the winner of multiple writing and book awards:
West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Novel, 1998.
New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Writer Wellness, 2020.
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, Writer Wellness, 2021.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, Member of the Year, 2020.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, First Book Award, 2020.
She is an adjunct faculty member in the Southern New Hampshire University Online MFA Creative Writing.
She is a proud graduate of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction.
She is a member of The Authors Guild and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Joy is the founder and CEO of My WRITEDAY Subscription Box for writers and readers.
I believe you, Joy! Writing has helped me figure myself out, and I've reached a place where my characters are teaching me things, and I feel like I am contributing something important by writing them.
I have days where everything seems to go right or I perceive it that way. I call it being in flow with nature. Nothing upsets me, even a mess. This is probably just how i approach the day, not nature, traffic and appliances giving me a break. It's important to approach writing thinking I am in flow. Nothing can go wrong that I cannot fix..