You can only do so
much with chicken, and yet there are a countless number (at least it seems like
it) of fast food franchises specializing in it. How can you tell them apart?
There must be something unique about each for so many of them to survive.
There is nothing
new under the sun, and yet we have whole industries (music, entertainment,
publishing) built around the idea that we can create something new, with
millions of lifetimes spent trying to prove that point every day. Before the
written word, the printing press, computers and other media, these things only
existed in people’s memories, so creations could be lost and rediscovered. Nowadays
nothing goes away (even if you wish it would.)
What distinguishes
one story from another? Ultimately, the story must find its way into the
reader’s heart. More properly READERS’ HEARTS. Writing is a one-to-many street.
An author pours his lone heart out in a story, and hopes the story connects
with readers, so they take it into their own.
How do you connect
with an infinite number of hearts? You can’t target any individual reader if
you want a broad appeal. You have to do the best you can getting into the
single heart at the other end of this connection. As a writer, that means YOUR
OWN HEART.
What makes you
different? How do you stand out? (Don’t even try to tell me you don’t want to.
Everyone wants to be noticed, to be acknowledged as an individual in some way.
Sure, you may not want fame, but we all get to the end of our lives in this
world and look back to see whether our being here made any difference at all –
whether we were noticed. What we specifically place value on varies from person,
but everyone wants to feel they accomplished something over a lifetime.)
What is your
heart’s desire? To be remembered and missed by friends and family? To be
immortalized by your own chicken recipe? To write a story that connects with
readers, maybe even generations later? To make people laugh? Whatever it is
you’re seeking, it’s not going to happen on its own, so get on out there and
make your difference happen.
Just
saying…
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William Mangieri’s writing (including his latest
ePublication, a collection of short stories titled: “Still Even More Things I
Could Get OUT OF MY MIND”) can be found in many places, such as:
- His
Amazon Author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008O8CBDY
- Barnes
& Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/william-mangieri?store=book&keyword=william+mangieri
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