My blog is kind of all over the place. That’s the conclusion I came to last night. That being said, I don’t feel all too bad about it because that’s what I’m like in a nutshell. If how we present ourselves online is supposed to be a true reflection of our brand, then mine is all over the place. For better or worse, I am organized chaos. Though, I do have a schedule and a reason for this madness.

From the beginning of my writing career I have always wanted to be transparent about the true process. Not the shiny packaged version a lot of authors put out. You know, the ones who talk about following the trends, and the editing process, and the dos and don’t of whatever to the point where you’re reading the same five posts about the writing process, they’re just put out there by different people with a slightly different spin on things. Because there are certain truths to the process that are universal. It just is part of how it goes. Much like how you can take math and apply it differently through many fields, that is what writing is like. Core methods are the same.

But there is something that goes unsaid about the writing process and that’s the part of themselves authors don’t often want to share. That’s the part that I’m hoping to show through posts like this one. The ones that are raw, kind of all over the place, and not shiny.

This week was a hard week for creating. A lot of creative types in general are struggling, and a lot of them have been told to hide it because “no one wants to see that and it’s a turn off for readers”. I’m not talking about the: “life is hard I’m rage quitting” struggle. Because I agree, that’s the struggle you keep to your peers. But just the in general: “Look, I’m struggling. Life is hard, and while I’m moving forward, I’m not necessarily feeling okay”. For some reason, we don’t share that with people in general. Which leads me to wonder how does one go about moving forward if they are constantly hiding truths?

So here’s mine: Creatively, I’m struggling. I can do the every day life stuff okay. Creative stuff feels like I’m looking for water in the desert. I know it’s there, but WHERE? And much like needing water to survive, I need creativity for my emotional happiness.

Check on your creatives and ask them how they’re really feeling. See what they have to say.