If You Do This For 12 Months, Your Writing Career Will Last A Lifetime

Show up every day, and the results will speak for themselves.

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When my mom was diagnosed with cancer, I had no idea how to react because I was paralyzed by fear. The world didn’t stop turning. People still went to work, the news kept coming, and life went on.

But my mental state improved when I started writing. It allowed me to pour everything onto paper, and that gave me some control. It also helped me to process my emotions, articulate my thoughts, and feel less alone. All those moons ago, writing was just a way to cope. I wasn’t really thinking about making a career out of it. I just needed to survive, to make sense of the world, and to not feel totally lost.

I know, I know, this sounds like one of those “I found my passion after something tragic” stories. You see it in movies or read it in memoirs all the time. The character scribbling in a notebook, figuring everything out.

But here’s the crazy thing…

The more I wrote, the more I realized writing wasn’t about getting over anything. It wasn’t about moving on or pretending e…