10 thoughts about writing:

  1. You don’t have writer’s block - you have an unwillingness to write something bad.

  2. Good writing begins with a goal - you don’t need to know what you’re going to write, but you need to know what you hope to get out of it.

  3. Writing is no less valuable today than it was 100 years ago and it will be no less valuable 100 years from now.

  4. Writing is what happens when your inner conversation demands an audience.

  5. The best writers could care less what you think of their writing while simultaneously caring more about what you think than anything else in the world.

  6. There’s no such thing as good and bad writing - just good and bad opinions.

  7. No great piece of writing starts with a bad first sentence.

  8. Most things you spend time on during the work day are likely a worse use of that time than writing would be.

  9. A text message can be “writing.”

  10. You don’t have to be a big reader to become a great writer, but you do have to be a big listener to become one.