From the course: Conquering Writer's Block

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The crappy writer's hat

The crappy writer's hat

- [Instructor] In my years of teaching writing and writing about writing, two of the biggest struggles or concerns I hear from writers are this, "I don't know if my writing is good enough, and I can't seem to finish anything." And oftentimes, these two concerns will come from the same writer, nearly in the same sentence, and that usually makes me laugh, not because I'm making fun of this person, of course, but because this essentially is the paradoxical problem that nearly all writers face, myself included. We want to write well and finish? Hmm, probably not going to happen. Well, at least not at first. I know for me, as soon as I start to obsess over whether my writing is good, that's when I start to lose all motivation to write. What? That makes no logical sense, but it's true. As soon as I start worrying about writing well, I lose the inspiration to finish. Why is that though? I've thought about this conundrum a…

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