09/03/2026
Read this twice.
Most people don’t lose their vision all at once. It happens slowly, one borrowed opinion at a time, until what’s left barely resembles what they actually wanted.
This is from Chapter 8 of Cuts of a Diamond, and it’s one of the passages readers bring up to me the most.
Your story works the same way. The version that’s honest, the one only you could write, gets muddied the second you start writing it for everyone else’s approval instead of from your own clarity.
Clarify it. Protect it. Then write from there.
