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Don’t Let Perfection and Procrastination Steal Your Writing Success

“Writing happens when you stay consistent and keep encouraging yourself that it’s okay to put words on the page.”   - Rebecca Camarena, author   You’ve started your book and you’ve written a few pages. You’re on a roll and when you stop for the day you promise to write daily. But the next thing you know you haven’t written in days. When you start writing each time you type a sentence, your inner editor cringes. You’re terrified you’re going to write something dreadful, so you don’t write anything. You stare at the blank page. You may have even started to question whether you should be writing a book at all. In your mind you wrote something great that first day and you consider yourself a great writer. Writers have this image of the literary greats sitting at their typewriters banging out their stories. You think they sit down and keep writing from the first page to the last. Since you want to emulate them you feel that you have to be perfect each time you write. If...

Learn to Squash Your Writing Fears

You’ve dreamed of writing a book. You want to be known as the author of … You’ve had it on your to-do-list for years. And yet …nothing. It’s not that you don’t recognize the benefits of a published book to your credit it’s that you’re afraid to get started because of the following; You’re scared to death to put yourself out there. You’re afraid of the critics and family and friends and what they’ll think. You’re afraid they’ll laugh at you or worse. You silently wonder, “Can I really do this?”   If you’re nodding along in agreement, know this; No matter where you are right now it’s possible to break down these fears. First, realize that critics will always be there however, just as many if not more people will be your biggest fans. And your loyal readers are the ones who will buy your books and recommend you to their friends. Write for them. Write for you. Write for the fun of it. Writing sharpens your mind. And the joy of creating something can’t be taken away from y...