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Don’t get caught up with producing perfect work. Write. Publish. Repeat.
It’s important to remember that your words are meaningless until they are shared with the world. Until you hit publish, your words are a conversation between you and yourself.
Don’t get caught up too much with editing and refining your articles. Focus on writing and hitting that publishing button.
I’ve had many viral articles get comments from people who highlighted grammatical errors. But guess what? People were still reading the article. The cool thing about hitting the publish button is that you can always edit, refine, and change things later.
Write more. Edit less. That’s my new motto.
When you have a high publishing rate, you don’t have much time to invest in editing because your goals require massive writing effort. The editing is nice, but it doesn’t need to take up all of your time. And I promise someone who reads your work who, cares enough, or notices (because many errors often go unnoticed) will mention it to you for your to fix later.
Sometimes, I write anywhere from 1–10 short books/stories a day or publish 1–10 blog posts daily. Today is a high publishing day, so I’m writing anywhere from 10–20 blogs. When you write this much, yes, you want to edit, but you don’t want to spend too much time doing so.
The Typewriter Analogy
The best thing about typewriters is that you can’t go back. You can only move forward. Implement the same process with your writing. Go back to edit, but don’t go back too often when you slow down your production rate. The purpose of being a writer is to write.
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