Merry Christmas, Wordplayers! – Helping Writers Become Authors

Merry Christmas, Wordplayers!

I always feel a poignancy at Christmastime. Here in the darkness of the year, every moment of light seems all the more potent—pregnant with meaning, if only I can become still enough to see it, to hear it, to understand it in deepest depths of myself.

I look back on all that has been, and for me, it has been a whirlwind year—a blur of light and colors. When I sat down a year ago to write this same note to you, I knew I was standing on the brink of a portal, about to walk through and change myself and my life forever. That portal involved finally resolving a years’ long decision-making process to buy a house.

It was not a year of much writing. It was a year in which almost everything I shared with you (two books, a course, and a years’ worth of posts, podcasts, and videos) was written in blur all within fourth months’ time—and then almost eight months of focusing on everything else life had to give me (and to throw at me).

Now, as I look forward to the horizon and the brave new year that promises to crest into view at any moment, I know this is uncharted territory. And I know I am not alone. So much has changed for all of us in such a short amount of time. None of us is who we were a year ago, never mind five years or ten years ago.

I don’t know who I will be going forward. I don’t know who you will be. But, as ever, I am here for this journey that is ours to walk together. I imagine us standing at the beginning of a road. We look at each other and we nod and we know. We know what this road means—because we are storytellers.

We light the way, first for ourselves and then for all those who walk behind us. It is a wide-open road. It is a book of blank pages. What we write is up to us. As we celebrate in the pockets of love and light that spangle the winter darkness, may we rise into this new year to write our deepest, most transformative, most daring, most life-changing, world-changing, self-changing stories yet.

See you on the other side.

Merry Christmas!