Practice vs Performance in Your Writing! #author #writer #writing #publishing #books

You're going to hate me for this one, but you need to change the way you're writing. You have to separate practice from performance. So if you think about pretty much any other creative endeavor, we naturally do this. We separate practicing something from performing it. We practice alone in our room on the guitar or piano until we feel like we're good enough that we can step out on stage and actually play something. We practice woodworking on simple projects before building something that we actually care about. We'll try like making a little box before we try to make a rocking chair that our grandfather's gonna sit in. However, for some reason in writing, we decide that we're just going to learn how to write by writing an epic novel that we hope tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people will actually read. It doesn't make any sense. First, you practice to become good at something, and then when you're good at it, you step out and perform. First, you need to build the skills of writing before you try to write a novel. Yeah. You want to publish. Like and subscribe for more writing tips.