Valentine’s Day

Is there someone who you are secretly in love with?  Someone who you could never tell about your feelings?  Someone who you think about even though you know nothing will or nothing could ever happen between you?

Write a letter to that person.  Write everything that you’ll never say.  Don’t hold back  a word.

Because you’re never going to give this letter to the person you love.

And then put that letter in a file on your computer called FOR MY EYES ONLY.

That’s what you have to do every time you write – write as if no-one’s ever going to read it.  Be honest and true.  Sometimes the pieces you write will go into FOR MY EYES ONLY.  And sometimes they’ll go out into the world to be read.  You’ll feel vulnerable and exposed.  It’s always going to feel like that as a writer.  And that’s okay.

Happy Valentine’s Day.