While a lot of writing advice focuses on crafting page-turners and bestsellers, sometimes we need to be reminded to plumb the boundless depths of our creativity and search for the ideas that truly matter to us.
During her acceptance speech after winning the Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her series I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel challenged writers to challenge themselves.
“I just wrote a little something, for writers, really . . . Write the tale that scares you, that makes you feel uncertain, that isn’t comfortable. I dare you. In a world that entices us to browse through the lives of others to help us better determine how we feel about ourselves, and to in turn feel the need to be constantly visible, for visibility these days seems to somehow equate to success—do not be afraid to disappear. From it. From us. For a while. And see what comes to you in the silence.”
