Publishing Is The Most Important Part of Writing
Writing is a funny old business.
You write something you feel will resonate and watch it flop. Then you write a piece you're not happy with and watch it fly.
Call it sod's law. Or maybe it's part of the creative process?
The truth is none of us know what's going to resonate and what isn't. This happened to me so many times I’ve lost track
I struggled to put a piece together. I chop and change lines. Read it from back to front and almost ditch it altogether. This is what doubt can do to you as a writer.
Doubt is a double-edged sword. It can help you root out the bad ideas, but it can also convince you to ditch a piece which might be a hit with your readers.
You can hazard a guess. Make an informed opinion, but more often than not, your hits are not the pieces you expect.
What's the lesson in all of this?
Publish. Publish. Publish.
You don't know what works and what doesn't until you hit the publish button. You can speculate all you want, but that's all it is, speculation.
Any piece of writing can be a masterpiece in your mind, it can also be a flop.
Doubt causes your pieces to mimic Schrodinger's Cat. Neither good nor bad for as long as they remain in your drafts.
They flop, they may succeed. Hell, they may take off into the stratosphere!
But you'll never know if you don't hit publish.