What is your footprint? Your fingerprint? Every bit of what you write includes some aspect about you. Writing can be a discovery process for you, or a statement about you. Recognize the beauty in that, that every bit of what you write is inherently valuable for simply those reasons.
 
Now, understand that some fingerprints become permanently published (think legal docs…wanted and unwanted!), while others fade (smudges on glass, for example). Likewise, some works are published, others aren’t meant to be – or weren’t meant to be. That said, all are real and lead to the next something.
 
Keep leaving your fingerprints.

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Meredith Resnick

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