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Quit This 1 Thing to Earn Your Writer Title
I am a writer even when I don’t write and so are you.
Pen to paper is the simplest way to be a writer.
Who needs a diary? Why care for a Word document filled with 500 words?
You’re a writer if scribbling down a list is your go-to system. Write in the margins. Add notes to an app. Pablo Picasso painted for 80 years.
Artistry comes not from hours spent taping away on your laptop. The years of quick plot sketches, jotted ideas, and doses of writing all lead to mastery.
Quit this one thing to earn your writer title.
Marry the wrong person
Waiting for the right platform is perfect in theory.
But you won’t amass any assets. No transferable skills, content, or audience when the right time and opportunity comes along. Create. Invest. Publish. Be like an up-and-coming artist sharing song covers online.
It’s a mistake to think of fanfiction as a waste of time.
Master of the Universe — a Twilight fanfiction by E. L. James, was later reworked as Fifty Shades of Grey.
If you befriend procrastination, your reader can’t befriend you. You are your first reader. Type, write, scribble — make notes you can read later.
Your job as a writer is to write.
Someone else can publish on your behalf.
For example…
- Emily Dickinson. In life, Dickinson gained zero acceptance. But four years after Dickinson’s final breath, everything changed. Her daughter, Lavina, and Mabel Loomis Todd edited and published her work. She’s immortalized as one of American’s greatest of all time poets.
