Writing About Writer’s Block
This draft had been sitting unpublished for 2 months (I checked the database).
As someone who works at Medium, I spend a lot of time encouraging my friends, family,and people I meet on Twitter to write something on the platform, so it doesn’t make any sense why I haven’t written anything beyond an Applications Engineer job post and a sentence fragment. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve started. I have drafts piling up about my company’s culture, my experiences trying to find vegan makeup, and of course this one, on why I have writer’s block.
Excuses for why I don’t write that I scribbled on a post-it:
- terrified someone has already written the same thing
- I have an idea but no point to the story
- I am going to come off like an asshole
- I’m not an expert
- need to update my profile picture
And I might have left off the biggest fear of all: the fear of being honest about myself to the world, and letting people criticize me for who I am.
But no one will hear my point of view if I stay silent, so I’ve decided to hit “Publish” and see what happens.
Maybe after I’m done with this post I’ll send you that playlist I’ve been compiling for half a year.