I have finished edited a collection of ghost stories and finally made it into a coherent story. I took some time. Writing tends to take time and editing even more so. There are so many levels to it. I also started to reach out to publishers. I think the stories are worth reading. I will find the right forum to share them well. It's the least I can do. They are not only my stories after all. They are voices from a multitude of beings in the in-between. They have voices of their own, however fictional.
To write is a joy and also immensely difficult. It's giving the world a gift, every time. It really doesn't matter if it's a story of your life for the family to read - your grandchildren will salute you and so will the great, great, great ones in hundreds of years from now - or a story that puts everything we think we know on it's head or educational or pure entertainment - entertainment is a lightness not to be taken lightly. The words reaches someone, or many, somewhere and changes their lives. They make connections, an intricate pattern in the weave. Our stories are never just our own.
To dare to write is an act that takes courage. Are we any good? Do we have what it takes? Do we have anything to say? To share it takes even more. Fictional, autobiographic, non-fictional; there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, parts of our truest self will shine through. This is scary. But whatever the loud, insistent voices tries to convince us, they are only repetition. We have AI for that.
To tell intricate, complex stories worth telling, stories that says something about life, now that is worth it's weight in gold. You know what Galadriel says,
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
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To write your story and share it with others gives new depth to what we live and what we have learned.
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