How To Become an Effective Writer in One Day

This 2-minute writing advice is useful for every new writer

Dew Langrial
ILLUMINATION

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Is your mind drawn in several directions at once? That’s because your boundless freedom is an obstacle.

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” it’s the so-called Parkinson’s Law.

Expanding on Parkinson’s Law, if you are not time-bound to complete a project, you’ll never start it. More so if you are a writer. Writers have an awkward love-hate relationship with their writing.

Moreover, I can bet you are a shi**y writer. Just like every other writer who ever lived — especially me. I can say this because I have read all my work. I fail to make sense 90% of the time. If you want to read my work, read these stories.

Whatever you are to write, it’s probably going to be crap. Writing this sentence is to condemn every budding writer to hell — including myself. But you’ll feel better after reading the next two lines — I hope.

Do you know why you are a shi**y writer? Why are you wasting your time writing crap? It’s because you are comparing your raw ideas to well-edited polished masterpieces.

Who do you read? People who have been writing for ten, twenty, or thirty years. All the great writers were…

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Dew Langrial
ILLUMINATION

Living life in awe of it all. Hoping to make sense. A Thinker, Writer & Storyteller. Working on my tech startup. Visit me at: https://dewlangrial.blogspot.com/