How I Ruined Writing for Myself and What I am Going to Change
At the beginning of this year, I made a New Year's Resolution for myself as well as one large, and far-fetched goal, that I thought was achievable if I worked hard enough. I have come to find out that it was a terrible goal. My goal was this: to get some piece of my writing published. It could be anything, a short poem or a story. That probably sounds crazy but I have entered many contests, and there are a lot more of them out there than you would think. Over the past couple of weeks, I have noticed that writing became more of a chore than something I jump to in the morning. It’s really a terrible feeling, wanting to write and to be happy and excited about it, but just not. I wasn’t writing to get better or to just write, I was writing to get something published. Unintentionally, I was putting pressure on myself to write really well so that it would be something I would be proud to enter in a contest and in turn to achieve my goal....
