How many of you think you are committed writers?

Despite the fact I had very little work to show for it, for ten years I thought I was committed to writing a novel. The truth was, I was just wanting to write a novel. Wanting, though it was a very safe place to be, left me feeling pretty awful about myself.

Commitment requires risk. That’s why our brain doesn’t like it. But if you want to write a novel, you need to go from wanting to write a novel to being committed to writing a novel. It’s the only way.

Many of you writers are also stuck in this place of wanting. We tell ourselves we are committed, but actually, we are not willing to keep taking action no matter what. We are not willing to keep writing when it gets hard or when we get busy.

In this podcast and blog, learn about commitment vs. wanting so you can spot the difference and save yourself from the decade of struggle I went through.

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Jingle:

Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod

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