Just Write
Stop overthinking it.

“Just write” is the best advice any writer can give another writer.
It’s stupidly, gloriously simple.
If you have something to express to the world, just get it down on paper (or a screen) as soon as you can.
Author Ray Bradbury once said:
“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
Writing’s like working an invisible muscle. The more often you do it, the stronger that muscle becomes. And the stronger it becomes, the easier it is to write.
Easier. Faster. Better.
One of the major hurdles most writers just can’t get past is the struggle for consistency. Mastering the ability to spend more days writing than not writing is what sets the few who succeed long-term apart from the many who don’t.
You don’t have to write every single day of your life (nor should you), but you do have to write most days, if you want to turn it into an unbreakable, life-affirming habit.
Writing is a release. It’s therapy. It’s experimentation and problem-solving through the outpouring of creativity, hope, despair, and everything else in between.
If you’re a writer and you want to write, then do it.
Just. Write.
Make space for it in your day. Stay by your keyboard even when the words don’t come immediately. When they do come, don’t beat yourself up when they don’t arrange themselves perfectly the first time round.
Bradbury’s quote is a formula, and it looks like this:
Consistent writing + intense reading + fluid expectations = contentment
And it sounds pretty darn good to me.
Don’t overthink it.
Just write.
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