What advice has helped you the most as a writer? (lemmy.world)

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For me it was advice from Dan Harmon: "Don't try to prove you're a good writer, you'll never write anything. Try to prove you're a bad writer and you'll write everything." Not perfect advice but it really does help me write when I'm being overly critical of my ideas.

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[-] ImASquirrelYipee@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with this. I used to be unable to write anything because I felt like, if my work wasn't read, it was useless and needlessly written. Now, I love writing and I'm able to do it every afternoon, it's quite relaxing.

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