From passion to self-judgment
- In the beginning, it was easy. There was no pressure. There were no outside eyes. There were no expectations.
- When I started writing, I wrote in a private document for over a year before I published my first article.
- I wrote about what I wanted to write. I wrote because I wanted to get my thoughts down. I wrote because I felt like I needed to write.
- After a few months of sharing my work publicly, things began to change.
- As I developed an audience, I noticed that I began judging my work. In the beginning, I was just happy to get my ideas down on paper, but now I felt like they had to be “good”.
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