Today, she still creates poems every week. Originally, she thought it would last a few weeks but that was more than two years ago. In a matter of months, Nichols was creating like never before. The next morning, she woke up to hundreds of messages. With between just 10,000 and 20,000 Instagram followers at the time, most of whom were people from the music industry and pretty disengaged, she posted, “If you want me to write for your story, I’ll do it.” In October of 2017, while she was staring out a window of her parents’ home, she had the idea to start writing people’s stories. “It’s about something greater than me, and that, for me, gave me permission to create and to keep creating.”Įvery time someone would send Nichols their story, she would get excited, and she realized that her inspiration to write came from other people. “It’s about something greater than me, and that, for me, gave me permission to create and to keep creating.” “Suddenly, by writing for someone else and being inspired by others, now it’s not about me,” she explained. It was in those moments that Nichols’ creative block was broken, and she stopped thinking about her own fears and insecurities. She then began receiving more messages from people telling their own stories-stories of tragedy and loss. Do you have more?” and “I know you didn’t write this for me, but this is what it means for my story.” In just a few short months, it was repinned more than 100,000 times, even without any tags. Soon after, she started getting direct messages from people saying things like, “I really like this poem. The poem instantly went viral on Pinterest. Turns out, these feelings are a universal struggle. She wrote a poem expressing her feelings of dealing with failure and not feeling like she was enough. At that time, Nichols, in her mid-20s, was going through a rough patch career-wise. Today, with more than 1 million followers on Instagram, and a new poetry book called “All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living”, Nichols is becoming a household name, but in 2016, she was just getting her start.
How did this creative rise to stardom in the digital world? On social media, of course. You might call her a modern-age blend of Mozart, Dickinson and Picasso.
Writer, artist and musician, Morgan Harper Nichols is a woman of many talents.
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