You Will Never Become an Author

And this is the single reason why.

You will never become an author. Not because you’re not skilled enough. Not because you lack discipline or dedication. But because the very idea of becoming an author is what keeps you from realizing you already are one.

The moment you strive to be an author, you place it in the future. Somewhere out there. Somewhere you have to reach through effort, clarity, and a lot of self-improvement. You picture the book launch, the completed manuscript, the words polished and perfect.

But as long as you chase after becoming an author, you deny the fact that you already are one.

Look at the words on the screen. The ones forming themselves right now. Or the thoughts circling in your head, the half-formed ideas, the glimpses of sentences you haven’t even written yet.

There’s the author. The writing is already happening.

Striving to be a writer is like trying to catch your own shadow. It turns a natural process into something to achieve, something separate from yourself.

But writing doesn’t care about your ambitions. It doesn’t care whether you feel legitimate or not. It’s happening, regardless. Trying to become what you already are is like searching for your own eyes.

Every attempt to control it, define it, pin it down, only creates more distance. The more you strive, the more you separate yourself from the simple act of writing that’s already unfolding.

You will never become an author, because you already are one.

Writing happens before you even try to organize it.