The Writer's Paradox: Personal Is Universal

by Matt Cardin. What is deepest in you is deepest in others. Write from that.

The following article was written by Matt Cardin, the man and the mind behind the publication The Living Dark.

The Living Dark is Matt’s blog/newsletter on creativity for writers, situated at the intersection of religion, horror, nonduality, apocalypse, dystopia, consciousness, and the numinous unknown. Matt is the author of five books and the editor of four more. His books have been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, long-listed the Bram Stoker Award, and praised by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and others.

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This article originally appeared on the The Living Dark here. I’m sharing it with The BoldBrush Letter because Matt has explored the timely topic of the best way to create art, in the form of writing, that connects deeply with other human beings and that is a topic of importance to all artists. While Matt references writers in the article below, these ideas are equally applicable to visual art.

Editor’s Note: In two days, this post will be locked and is available only to paid members because we don’t want this duplicate content on the open web in a way that might draw traffic away from Matt’s original post. If you are not a BoldBrush paid subscriber, you can still read the entire post here.