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3 Things to Quit Worrying About ASAP if You Want Your Writing Career to Thrive
You can’t allow worry to block your path to writing progress
My friend was a worry warrior.
The tiniest wobble with his writing was enough to set his worry wheels in motion.
He’d sit up for hours on end, jotting his worries in his notepad. It almost became a nightly affair, and he soon got a notebook full of worries.
He was on a vicious cycle.
Maybe he secretly sought solutions to those worries. Fair enough. But if he did, he never mentioned that to me. Nor were they effective.
Those worries slowed down his writing immensely. They stopped him from learning new things, taking risks, and making new connections. Those worries got in his way, stunting his growth and threatening his career.
How about you? Do you worry about your writing?
It’s okay if the occasional concern about your writing becomes a worry. If that’s what prompts you to take action, why not?
But to worry for the sake of it doesn’t exactly bode well for your writing. And if you do worry, what exactly do you worry about?
