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A Badish Review, Its Consequent Meltdown, & a Redemptive Arc
Hot Take: Writing Can Really Suck
I often laugh at Medium because so many articles in my feed read like bad inspirational speaker presentations. They’re tediously positive.
- You can get 10K followers in 3 weeks!
- How I made 7 figures in 10 minutes while dying my dog’s hair.
- If you can dream it it’s already done in the Believe-o-sphere.
And, don’t get me wrong, there is a wonderful place for those headlines and articles, but when you’re inundated with them daily, they get a bit, well…cloying.
And, in my own experience, about 50% of being a writer is absolutely miserable. Like, I write a lot. I usually do 45 minutes of solid writing a day. But the rest of my day is spent hating that 45 minutes of writing or wallowing in self-doubt. The only reason I consider myself a writer is because I keep writing in spite of that. If I could quit, I would. Trust me.
So, whenever I have an opportunity to share my own misery in a pseudo-helpful light, I leap at it. My last round of beta reads was one such incident.
A review this past summer birthed another.
