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BAM. I feel the need to share this with every writer I’m working with right now.
As a new blogger, this post is extremely helpful! Thanks for your words Margaret! They so often resonate in my heart!
These truths you wrote concerning sharing are much needed today. I think PW hit the nail on the head concerning Fight Back with Joy. I cried with you and I laughed with you. Your story is a difficult one to tell but it a story that needed to be told. No doubt you found the line and didn’t cross it. I know it could not have been easy. Thank you for your diligence in telling it the right way without the “vomit.”
Margaret,
I’ve struggled with this question, how much to share, this past year — and I’ve mostly stopped sharing my writing, fearing I couldn’t walk the fine line of healed vs emotionally needy sharing during this hard season of my life.
Your post encouraged me that it’s possible!
Hi Margaret, I don’t have a blog, probably never will. But I loved your book and you, too. Xox
Not surprisingly, you have entered into to choppy water with this post and brought a sweet and calm perspective. I stopped writing publicly a couple of years ago for this very reason. I saw in myself and others these tendencies towards angst and over sharing you are referring to. I learned a lot from falling into the various traps out there in the blogosphere. I still read (less than a handful) blogs occasionally — as there are some writers who have navigated these murky waters better than others leaving readers encouraged toward our better selves instead of commiserating in our common tribulation.
You are one of these writers Margaret.
Life is not always sunshine and roses and God gave us the admonition in Phil 4:8 to be lived out in the midst of that reality. We all do well to let our writing, conversations and even our thoughts be shaped by the boundaries of goodness we read there.
Thank you so much for so clearly showing the distinction! I’m definitely sharing this!