4 Pieces of Writing Advice to My 21-Year-Old Self
Lessons I’ve learned in 6 years of writing
The first lesson you learn when you start taking writing seriously is that no matter how bad your first draft is, you have got to keep writing it.
In 2014, when I was a final year undergraduate student, I discovered this platform called Quora, where I used to write short stories and snippets from my life experiences.
I thought my writing was terrible, that no one apart from my closest friends would ever be interested in reading what I wrote.
I didn’t know that 57,000+ people would find my stories relatable and keep asking me for more. My inbox was filled with messages from people who said they would be the first ones to buy my book the day I released it.
For a college student, that was incredibly humbling as well as flattering.
It has been six years since, and I have come a long way. I publish my work online almost on a daily basis. Here are four things I would tell my 21-year-old self. Maybe they will save you months — probably years — of stumbling around in the dark.
1. You do not suck
No matter what that voice inside your head keeps on telling you, your writing is not bad.
