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How To Overcome Your Publish Fear?
Not daring to hit that publish button will inhibit your development
You want to write online, but you’re in doubt…
You don’t know what to expect.
Is it fear or something different? It’s hard to tell.
It’s not a big deal; I think most writers experienced this feeling and perhaps still do.
What if I told you I was three months on Medium before I had the guts to send some stupid article in the sky?
I lost heaps of time doubting and reviewing what now looks like an amateuristic post…I have spent many hours obsessing about grammar and punctuation, while you have some nifty tools for that. Sometimes I even think it was a subconscious reason I gave myself for not needing to hit that publish button.
The first time I thought about writing came through my increased reading rate. I admire the mind of subliminal writers. People (Assuming you’re one of them) who’ve read a reasonable amount, among which are autobiographies, will know what I mean. It never came to my mind to start (exposed) writing online.
I experienced that holdback for publishing the first time, like most people; I still have it whenever I didn’t publish, even for a day or two.
