Creative Superpowers

Darrin Atkins
2 min readOct 11, 2024

Use your special abilities now!

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Your life experiences matter. As a writer, you have the ability to tap into all of your life experiences and memories. You can use them to tell an unlimited number of stories.

You have creative superpowers that others can never have or possess. How is that? It’s because most people on this planet are not having the same experiences that you are having at any given moment.

You, the writer, have an advantage over others who create content. You see and experience things differently and that’s a fact.

How can you use your superpower for success on Medium?

One word: honesty.

All you have to do is be truthful in your writing and let your experiences shine through in your stories.

Admittedly, it can be painful. Recently my father passed away and I am angry about it. Seriously, I am very upset about how it happened and I want to blame others. It’s easy to do that and to point the finger at this moment that could have ended differently or that decision that might have given him a few more days.

My perspective could be qualitatively different than others who were in the orbit of my father’s 87th year of life. Granted, I didn’t see the suffering and pain that was evident and obvious. All I know is that, if I’m…

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Darrin Atkins

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