I believe the magic lies in how completely the author commits to only writing about what delights and interests him. Whenever we write something, there’s a chance that others will read it, and we often curtail our trains of thought to conform to what we imagine others will find acceptable.

Doing so sabotages our work, because the same armor that shields us from embarrassment also bars us against the very sense of connection that art aspires to engender. If we pretend to be normal, we doom all other weirdos to loneliness, forgetting that each of us is weird in our own way, and that what is weird about us is precisely what others find most interesting.

Source: Write what only you can write

Writing about whatever you’re uniquely obsessed is hardly a new approach, it’s the basis of all good writing. The only new thing is that writing about anything else is less valuable than it used to be, and it was never that valuable in the first place. Life is short. If you’re going to write, write something worth reading.

Write what only you can write.

Source: Write what only you can write - Eliot Peper