- Believing you are of the wrong age, weight, gender, race, nationality, religion or anything else other or not other.
- Always attending conferences.
- Never attending conferences.
- Only reading Facebook and Twitter posts.
- Only reading what you like and or that which doesn’t challenge your sensibilities.
- Reading only the genre in which you write.
- Sacrificing your health, family, values, and quality of writing for the sake of getting published.
- Believing you don’t have a story to share.
- Not locking your office door (or otherwise protecting your writing time and space) when you write.
- Saying no when you should say yes.
- Saying yes when you really mean no.
- Never doing research.
- Doing too much research.
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13 More Ways to Sabotage Your Writing Practice
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13 Ways to Sabotage Your Writing Practice
- Waiting for someone to tell you it’s ok to write.
- Put off writing until after the dishes are done, the bills are paid, the lawn is mowed, Game of Thrones is over, you’ve re-watched all nine seasons of Seinfeld.
- Use your writing space for grading papers, planning lessons, paying bills, doing taxes, repairing your motorcycle.
- Never jotting down your good ideas.
- Believing your good ideas are rubbish.
- Judging what you write.
- Judging what others write.
- Comparing your writing with that of others.
- Berating yourself for not writing more.
- Repeating the familiar instead of exploring the unknown.
- Never asking questions.
- Assuming you don’t know how to write well.
- Assuming you do know how to write well.
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