The Same… Only Different
Walt Disney World in Florida has an average annual attendance of more than 58 million visitors (before COVID). Have you been? I’ve had the chance to go dozens of times—most of them when I was 12 and we moved to a town an hour away from Orlando. Every time friends from Canada would come to visit, we’d take them to Disney World. My parents even let me ditch school a bunch to times to go. I returned as a teen a few times, then twice in university. I visited again with my own family, when my kids were 5 and 7.
But my husband had never been before. He didn’t experience the magic for the first time as a dreamy kid like me, but as an adult, a dad to two princess-obsessed little girls. While I reminisced about my favorite rides, he got to try something new.
Same place. Same rides. Different experiences.
It’s the same with writing. We all go to the same place (our computers/paper). Yet our experiences—how we write, how we edit, how we sell our stories to the world—are as varied as we are. There’s no one writing process.
Which means there’s no wrong way, either. It’s simply a matter of finding the way that works best for you. So enjoy your unique experience.
Because no matter how many writers are out there, you’re one of a kind.