In a random bar, you’ll never meet them again and you won’t have to worry about seeing it repeated as a bad example. It happens, it’s gone, you can look at it without having to cringe if it didn’t work.
Once you put something on the web, you can re-visit it and cringe once a day. ; ) Or not. But let’s be honest — if you’re harsh with yourself, you can always find a reason to cringe.
Most of us have a reader in our head. For a lot of us, it’s not a friendly reader. It’s an English teacher who publicly criticized you, it’s a family memb er or a friend who “just wants you not to make a fool of yourself.”
If you’re going to get better, you have to make that reader go away.
Medium is a way to invite a lot more of those readers in.
You are a good writer. But you have to let yourself screw up in private.
Think of the writing as a baby. Is it fair to the baby to throw it to the wolves before it can run?
