How to Stay Calm After Submitting Your Stories to Medium Publications
It’s simple, keep a few stories in your drafts.
I was restless when I first started submitting to various publications on Medium.
I would get up and start checking my emails to see if any publication accepted me as a writer and then check if any article is accepted in any publication.
I know it’s not in my hands-on how an editor would react to my article. But still, that’s what was defining my mood as I get up in the morning and throughout the day.
When we are doing anything every day. We think about the outcomes that are not in our control. That causes anxiety and stress.
I know this, but my emotional mind ignored that fact. That made me more anxious.
It took me a few days to get my logical brain to convince my emotional brain to be a little calmer.
I found a routine that helped me to get over this. To stop thinking about if any publication will add me as a writer or if will they accept my article anxiety.
The trick is to keep multiple topics to write within Medium stories as drafts.
This is easy. Last Sunday I was standing in a line in a supermarket and got a couple of ideas to write about. I…
