Why The Writing for Free Battle, Isn’t One
(by Susan James)
Among many popular themes in the writing world these
days, is one of the subject matter folks like to take sides
on, especially online, which is: ‘to write for free’ or not.
In the realm of higher mechanics (manifesting skill
development), my playground, writing for free or not, is
not an issue.
It’s not about writing for free or not to write for free.
It’s about how we feel and express ourselves as make
these choices.
If we judge both ourselves for giving our words away for
free as not a good choice, and or judge others in the same
manner, then the actual choice does not matter. We negate
our overall intention energetically, which is some form of
success, by going against the grain of ourselves.
It’s about writing flow and why most of us have some
level of gift of writing in the first place. It’s about creative
flow and how we direct it. We stifle this flow, by getting
caught up in the shoulds and should nots of writing and
how to promote ourselves.
If we stifle the flow going out from ourselves, we also put
up a wall for flowing coming back to us, in the form of
some type of success fulfillment.
I could not have built my livelihood without first offering
something out for free. I still put out writing for free in
some form quite often and I love doing it.
But was it and is it still, really ‘for free’?
A reader who takes a moment to read something that I
wrote, is of value to them and to me. I value their time
and generosity of their eyes taking in my words and
thoughts. I value this in many ways, as much as I do
monetary payment for various products and services.
Therefore, their time is ‘freely given’, but not devalued on
my end.
I’m not held to simply ‘free or not free’. I do what I feel
good about doing, when I feel like doing it. I place some
value on everything that I do. Its value may not mean the
same to others as it does to me; and for others, it may
mean more to them than I ever would have imagined.
There are many aspects of my writing and its extensions,
where monetary exchange, is what it is; I have this
product/service, in the form of energy that you are
welcome to, for an exchange of energy from you in the
form of money.
Absolutely everything is energy. I value this exchange of
energy between us, and I thank you very much! It allows
you to expand your energy and world by reading
something of mine. It allows me to expand my energy and
world by using your (money) energy to expand someone’s
else’s world through something I may purchase, using
what has now become my (money) energy.
The same comparison applies to ‘putting it out for free’,
where the situation fits.
Who gets to choose when it fits and feels best to do it for
free? ME; and I only do it when it feels good to do it.
Whenever it doesn’t feel good to put something out for
free, I don’t do it. I get to do whatever I want, feel good
about it and my writing world expands itself in ways I
never would have dreamed.
Oh, and this that you are reading is free for you to read,
but please don’t be mistaken. I value both your time for
reading it and I thank you. And I value my time for
writing it, otherwise I wouldn’t have.
Susan James (Copyright http://www.susanjames.org )
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