A WIR subscriber writes this very good question, “What I find mysterious about creative writing is how do I believe in myself each time I sit down with pen and paper?”

There are many ways we can learn to affirm the importance of what we are doing when we choose to spend our time writing. Here is one: Writing means to consider life and in that consideration, to set down the glow of one or more of life’s sparks. Whether you are
writing about making and losing friends, moving, hearing children’s nightmares and stories, remembering parents and grandparents, planting gardens, exploring new places, walking to the same old store, or about war, abuse, and sad neglect, you are writing not only  to capture life’s meaning but to capture the very struggle you endure
to stay in touch with it. Because we all need to be reminded of how to do this, every piece  you write, no matter the topic, has value to a wide range of readers as well as to you.