Story is ancient. Life is constant. All we do as writers is take existing threads and weave them anew. We are the weavers, we are not the fibres. We are responsible for caretaking the fibres and gentling the cloth into being. 1/ https://twitter.com/holbolrob/status/1199685117754716168

The cloth we weave, we broadly share with anyone who would like to consider it for their own use. How they cut it is up to them: we cannot dictate the connections that an audient will make with it. We can suggest. We can have intentions. That’s all. 2/

When we make invitations to consider our cloth, that is all we are doing. We do not (re)present ourselves. We (re)present elements of story, aspects of life. We (re)present the cloth. If we hesitate to do that because we are insecure, we are putting ourselves above the cloth. 3/

We don’t put ourselves above the cloth, above the sacred elements of story, above the elemental truths of life. Instead, we honour those things when we talk about our work, just as we honour them by using them, and we honour the process of weaving, just as we do when we weave. 4/

“Talking about your work” is about the work, not the ‘your’. Get out of its way, (re)present it proudly. It needs that. It needs you. That is your job. No-one else can be proud of it in the way you can. No-one else knows it like you do, every single fibre. Look: it’s beautiful.