Your Stories!
Waaay back in 2003, I met a new friend who worked for a cell phone company. He had a state-of-the-art, brand-spanking-new smart phone. I still had an old (already out-of-date) flip phone. With glee, he showed me how one could play games on the phone and send emails and check the weather online. I scoffed. “Why in the world would anyone want to do anything else on their phone besides, oh, I don’t know, make phone calls??”
Yeah. This is why I’m not a multi-billionaire tech guru…
I was thinking about this (as I absently scrolled through apps on my latest iPhone). How I was so convinced I didn’t need this snazzy new product only to be convinced (by consumerism, convenience, peer pressure and my own lagging curiosity) that perhaps I did? Now I scoff at people who don’t have one. (Yes, I hear they do exist.)
I didn’t know I needed a smart phone, yet now I can’t put mine down.
I didn’t know I needed my latest favourite novel, yet now I can’t put it down.
People don’t know they need your story. That doesn’t mean they don’t need it. They just don’t know it yet.
So take heart. Take heed. Keep writing. Then give us what we didn’t know we needed.