There’d be a viral event like Cristiano Ronaldo pushing away two bottles of Coke during a press conference. Your Creative Process Has Its Own PhysicsĮvery time I browse marketing content for one of my articles, my mind gets blown into a thousand pieces. If you never break a rule or two, you’ll never stand out enough to earn a spot in a fancy pub.Īdapt the guidelines to your voice. Writers who glue themselves to guidelines think it’s a decent way to get published regularly.īecause here’s a fun paradox about guidelines. Instead of developing your own style, you’ll turn into a lifeless clone enslaved to a moody algorithm. Because if you do, ugly things will happen. However, when they tell you to fuck off because your voice is a problem, don’t listen.ĭon’t ever sacrifice your personality to fit someone else’s guidelines. Publications will reject your work for all kinds of reasons and many of them are valid. “How the fuck are you supposed to sound when you’re calling out some heavy bullshit?” Probably not all-sunshiny and rainbowy, right? So thank you very much dear editor, but I’m keeping my f-bombs. Then my brain sobered up, cleared its throat, and asked me a question. There was even some self-righteousness, God forbid.įirst, I felt like shit because you know, hard work, pride, high expectations, and apparently self-righteousness. The editor politely pointed out that I sounded too negative for their readers. The other day I submitted a draft in which I attacked a self-help myth called The Law of Attraction. Ready? Your Voice Matters More Than Guidelines Below are varied tips that helped me and I’m hoping they will help you as well. You can’t get rid of these unwanted guests, but you can learn to live with them. You wake up each morning to an endless banging at your mental door. “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” it’d yell. When you give away a fancy engineering CV and the salary that comes with it for a side hustle that may turn into a disaster, the first voice you hear is your inner critic. Coming from an immigrant who couldn’t afford a suit for his first day at the job, it must’ve felt like a prank. At the end of June 2020, I sat in front of my boss and told him I wanted out.

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