Bleeding on The Page Gives Others Permission to Do The Same

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read but to be learned by heart.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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As a writer, the amount you bleed on the page is directly proportional to your level of ownership over your story.

A superficial cut, your story still owns you.

A deep cut, letting it pour on the pages, you own your story.

We know when someone is holding back, we can feel it, and we root for them to go further, go deeper — not because we want to judge them — but because we love when people share their stories openly.

It gives us permission to do the same with our story.

When someone bleeds on the page, we feel it deep inside our souls when they are honest, raw, and vulnerable.

The author is pulling back the curtain of their soul; we, the reader, are catching a glimpse of something we feel we should not see — and we love it.

Because we understand that we are not alone when an author bleeds, the author is tapping deep into the emotions all of us…