Yes, you. You, with the pen in hand, the laptop atop your lap. You, with the scribbles and the scrawls. You with the tappity-taps and clickity-clicks. You, with the eraser marks. You, with the red and green squiggles. You, who knows a piece of written paper equals a little more than half a typed page. You, who knows 50,000 words is about 100 regular pages. You, who doesn’t know how to spell a word because you’ve only heard it spoken, but never seen it written. You, who stuffed your work in the attic drawer. You, who saved your story inside a chain of files so nobody would read it by accident.
Your writing is important. Don’t give up.
Your writing is important even if you’re not one of those who has the energy and social skills to make yourself popular.
Your writing is important even if you’re shy and can’t really introduce yourself well, or broadcast your achievements to the world so people know how to find you.
Your writing is important even if you accidentally offended that one really popular person and now nobody who likes them will read your stuff, let alone comment.
Your writing is important even if you aren’t good at writing to fic prompts, and never make half of a ficlet bingo card, and are afraid to join Big Bangs or gift exchanges.
Your writing is important even if there’s only a handful of people who like your ship/fandom/angle on such and such a character, and they’re always the only ones who talk to you about it.
Your writing is important even if the people you read never bother to read your work, and they never say why.
Your writing is important because You. Are. Writing! Not because you are shilling it everywhere and tapdancing to win the attention of readers who might possibly leave you a comment but only if they think you’re cute.
Your writing is important because it brings something into the world that was not previously there. Because it gives you a voice that outlasts you. Because someone, somewhere, needs to read what you are writing, even if they never scratch up the courage to say so. Your writing is important because every time you do it, even if you don’t publish a word of what you write, you are learning something new. Something that will make the next thing you write even better.
Your writing, my darlings, is important.
Because.
Hey, Writers
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