Only you

A bit of writing advice:

If you hope to be published someday (or even write something good), write the thing that only you can write.

There are better writers than you in this world. Writers better than you at crafting sentences and capturing moments and making readers laugh and cry and emote. Writers capable of manipulating and assembling words in an order that will always be better than your order.

If your plan is to be the best writer, forget it. There is only one best writer, and it’s probably not you. It will probably never be you. You’ll probably never crack the top 10 or the top 100 or even the top 1,000 writers alive today.

There are simply too many people and too much talent in this world.

But all is not lost.