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Most People Will Love It · The Daily Writer

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: We writers often talk about the reasons we write, but what are the reasons that we don't write?
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: What keeps us from writing?
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: Several things probably come to mind, such as procrastination, not enough time, not feeling creative, among other reasons.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: But at the end of the day, there's one main thing that keeps us from writing.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: The novelist Erica Jong hit the nail on the head when she said, I went for years not finishing anything, because of course when you finish something, you can be judged.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Now we're all writers here and we all understand each other, so let's take a moment for a little bit of honesty.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Is there somebody in your life you're afraid of disappointing with your writing?
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a parent or a sibling.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a teacher.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a friend of yours who has a popular blog or has had some books published.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine that you put your writing out there and they don't like it.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they express some disappointment or even leave a bad review on Amazon.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Then they move on with their life and they promptly forget about it.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: But that's about the extent of it, right?
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: At its worst, being judged by somebody just means that your writing isn't for them.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: But that's about the extent of it.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: At its worst, being judged by someone just means that our writing is not for them.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yet in our minds, we're terrified of not being liked, we're terrified of disappointing somebody.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: And we let this fear of being judged by one person keep us from writing stuff that 99 other people will love.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: So finish your writing, do the work.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Chances are pretty high that the 99 will love it.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: And the one person who might not like it, well, that means it just wasn't for them.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: We like to think of this person as the one we should convince, the one we should try and bring into the fold of our readership.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: But you have to let them go.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about the one that got away.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, focus your energy on the 99 who enjoy your work and really want to support you.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, nobody said this was going to be easy, but learning to let go is an essential part of being a writer.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.