RANDOM ANECDOTE WITH A GOOD MESSAGE:
So, a few years ago I was writing with this guy I was friends with. We had a creative writing class together, and I showed him this novel I was working on. He told me I should write him into it, so that he could be famous one day.
Now, at the time, I didn't think too much into it because that was just the kind of person he was. Hilarious guy, honestly, but he would make really out of nowhere comments like this a lot. I actually did what he asked, and wrote him into the book as a character in a few scenes.
Now that brings us to present time. I've been feeling more down lately, less and less confident in my writing and just general BEING, but today while washing the dishes I was thinking about that unfinished, which reminded me of him asking me to write him into it. I laughed at the thought, but then realized...he wanted me to write him in so he could be famous. Famous. Not so he could just be in a book. FAMOUS.
I realized that, whether intentional or not, that was his indirect way of telling me he thinks my writing is good enough. That he thinks my book will be famous.
ULTIMATE LESSON/MESSAGE:
It really is the little things that matter. And sometimes they don't matter until years later.
But they do matter.