If you are writing for yourself

And it is something different then everyone else,

But you still desire to get paid…

 

You will hear time and time again,

“Write what sells, and then try to sell your writing then.”

It does not work.

 

Stefani Germanotta did a series of hits

And when she attempted to woo her true love,

You’d know the hits, but not of it

That she did.

 

For, her reputation was already made

To be a monster made by fame.

Write, instead, what is true to you.

 

Do not sell out,

For then you are a fool.