The Writers Epiphany.
Hearing Your Hidden Voice When It Works to Guide Self. - 6 min read
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It’s something that you either have, or you don’t.
The craft of writing is always going to be more then just piecing parts of a puzzle together to make up an amazing jigsaw.
It’s always more then just a job.
Like for me when it happened the first time.
Something profound shone through like a poke from another dimension.
I was counselling MYSELF without even being aware of it.
SUDDENLY...
I realized I wasn’t just writing for an audience.
I was writing to ME three months ago!
What the heck?
This is exactly what they don’t tell you about consistent writing:
You’re not just building an audience—you’re building a TIME CAPSULE of wisdom for yourself.
Every chapter is a checkpoint, and every sentence is proof you’ve survived something.
When your own words echo back and hit different weeks later, that isn’t nostalgia, its growth made visible.
And if YOUR past self-needed it, then someone in your audience needs it RIGHT NOW.
But Here’s the Truth Bomb:
The best writing happens when you stop performing, or going through the paces of some kind of writing structure set out by how others say it should be done.
It really doesn’t matter what dream somebody else is trying to sell you.
If you’re not feeling it and don’t really love what you’re doing it shows.
Writing is never a case of one shirt fits all.
It really isn’t.
The cloth looks good on the model but unless you can pave your own way, nobody can actually tell you exactly how to make it happen.
They can sell you advice, sure, like farming equipment at one of those outdoor machinery expos, expensive to purchase but it looks the part, right?
And it would feel good looking at it sit in your paddock, but without the skills to operate it and farm, its only ever going to be a pipedream.
Your writing is the same.
You want success and so you look to others who seem to be successful.
And there are plenty of writers who will try to capitalize on what they’ve apparently done right.
The thing they don’t tell you is that looking at somebody else’s photo album never makes those same snapshots yours too.
If you try to capture what is somebody else’s journey?
It’s likely to lead to disappointment because your heart is not really in for the work of it, your heart simply sees just the outcome and thinks, yep, I want that beachside stay with aqua cool waters and white sand too.
So, you try everything you can to follow along on somebody else’s footpath.
And that’s a mistake.
When you do this happens:
Your words come through with a silent sort of hollow scream.
And readers can hear it.
But when you start actually processing the fact that when you write, it must come from a place that is real in order to make a real difference, and that you’re not always writing FOR someone you’re writing TOWARD understanding, then that’s the fine line between satisfaction for your own milestones that cannot be put up against anybody else’s.
It means that when you have something to show for your dedication to your work, you have not lost a sense of self or purpose along the way because you never gambled with it to start with.
You think you’re giving advice one moment, but really, you’re discovering what YOU know.
Advice is great when it can be properly utilized.
It means picking your oranges but discarding those that don’t hold the juice.
And that’s where a lot of people struggle because all oranges look basically the same.
To be able to sort through what coincides with your goals and what doesn’t, you must know who you are first.
Let’s take a look at what that entails
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