Writers don’t want to be influencers.

I assure you, as creatives, most writers have probably considered alternate paths—music, acting, painting, dancing, perhaps even influencing (however, I imagine this accounts for very few of us). For writers, though, none of these paths would have made sense because the whole point of being a writer is to tell the story, not be the story.

Writing, in its most primal form, is best expressed without a face—passing the baton to the reader to invoke their own imagination. The reader/writer relationship is a sacred one—a silent, creative partnership unlike any other.

Writers are messengers, not performers—that’s not in [most of our] nature. To ask a writer to perform is to ask them to lie about who they are.

So, please don’t ask writers to be influencers.

We’re just here to tell the story.