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Has This Story Got Legs?
The main reason I write is that I have things to say: information, ideas and opinions that I want to give shape to and share with others. But sometimes the execution isn’t as seamless as I would like.
If I’m lucky, the right words spill from my brain onto the screen. It might be a messy jumble but there’s a unifying core that will pull it together with a bit of time and effort. There’s usually a moment in the drafting process where I can confidently say that it’s got legs.
But it doesn’t always go this way. Sometimes I ramble, I go off on tangents, get bogged down in the detail. I have to remind myself what I want to say. Or ask myself what I wanted to say in the first place.
Sometimes it just refuses to be whipped into shape so I abandon it in the story graveyard. When I try to delete them, the message warning me that “Deleted stories are gone forever. Are you sure? It seems so final. So I let them be.
A quick inventory of my Medium drafts brings to mind the following reasons why they ended up there.
It’s about relationship issues that I’m still processing
These ones are hard work. It’s emotionally taxing and it’s hard to get enough distance to be able to deliver a clear message. It’s…
