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These 10 writing habits are sabotaging your writing career

Amrit Hallan
8 min readSep 29, 2024

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Have you ever wondered if your writing habits are harmful?

Today, I’ll share 10 habits writers should immediately quit.

They’re sabotaging your writing career.

Over the years, I’ve realized some habits are just holding us back.

I used to overthink every sentence.

Each word had to be perfect.

I revised endlessly, and nothing felt good enough.

Waiting for inspiration became my excuse.

I told myself that I needed the perfect mood.

Then, I avoided difficult topics, scared they wouldn’t turn out well.

I kept reworking drafts but rarely finished anything.

These habits slowed me down.

They stopped me from becoming the writer I am today.

Eventually, I figured it out.

Writing isn’t about waiting for a magic moment.

It’s about showing up, even when it’s hard.

I let go of the overthinking and the excuses.

And I started making real progress.

Let’s talk about 10 habits we need to ditch.

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Amrit Hallan
Amrit Hallan

Written by Amrit Hallan

I don’t care much about being politically correct. Things are just right or wrong and yes, sometimes there are grey areas in this is why we write, don’t we?

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