What seems like common sense to you may come as a
revelation to the reader.
The only true test of your ideas is whether they interest you
And arouse your own expectations –
The capacity for surprise that you discover as you
work.
Our purpose in writing – its essential purpose –
is to offer your testimony
About the character of existence at the moment.*
Verlyn Klinkenborg

Story – the self-narrative that we use to make sense of the world around us – is [an] interpretation. Story puts facts in context so we can understand their significance and what they mean to us.**
Lisa Cron

I have met many people who have thought that
everyone must be able to do what they can do – but
they are wrong;
Not only had they learnt the skills and played these into talents,
They were well on the way to developing these into strengths – superpowers:
And sowe must always lean into what interests us, that which produces
expectations and longing in us –
Then “sing it out.”

This is the positive story to make of
the same facts as the more negative story we began with;
Every one of us is capable of doing this – often with
more or less help from others:
There are no ordinary people.^

*Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several short sentences about writing;
**Lisa Cron’s Story or Die;
^C. S. Lewis, from Ben Hardy’s Be Your Future Self Now.