The Best Time To Start Your Writing Career Is Now

Your first post may not be perfect, but it’s a start.

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When I first started writing on Substack, I thought I needed everything to be perfect before I could hit "publish." I kept thinking I needed the right audience, the right content, and a newsletter design that looked perfect. So, I spent days, weeks, months, tweaking tiny details, waiting for the moment when everything would fall into place. Then I’d feel confident, and the perfect post would just write itself.

But that moment never came.

I kept telling myself I needed more. I thought that if I just worked a little harder, perfected everything, this tiny newsletter with 5 subscribers called Writing Wednesdays would take off. But all the time I spent waiting could’ve been spent improving, growing, and most importantly, connecting with my readers.

The real issue wasn’t that I didn’t have enough followers or a perfect pitch.

It was that I was afraid to start.

Here’s the thing about writing on Substack.

Success rarely happens when you wait for everything to be perfect. Ins…