Writers, Please Don’t Lose Your Compassion
Your lack of compassion will show up in your writing. Your readers will feel it in every word you’ve written.
I understand that the belief is to write for mass appeal and have a wider, bigger audience. To do this, many writers have been taught to write for the market, but in doing so we can forget we write for people.
My first story was written on Medium back in March 2020 before I left and returned. My first story was curated when “getting curated” on your first story wasn’t an easy feat. I understand now, that the story showed compassion.
It wasn’t some new innovative ideas. It was just compassion, sincere compassion. And I guard my energy daily to make sure I never lose compassion.
Cold. Hard. Unrelatable. Selling. Lying. Lacking empathy.
When writers lose their compassion, it shows up in their work. Readers may not be able to pinpoint what it is. Some would use words like the ones above.
A reader may not know why she or he can’t relate to your work. Readers just know something is missing.
Many writers on this platform write with compassion. A great number write so compassionately that after reading a 4+ minute story you’ve just been revived, inspired, and lit on fire.
