Stop Focusing on What You Want and Start Doing What You Can

How to escape the mental trap that holds you back from writing success

Austin Hackney
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readJun 18, 2021

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So, let’s get straight down to the meat-and-bones. Do you dream of writing one or more commercially successful novels? Or publishing a portfolio of highly acclaimed short stories? Or building a content-based blog which serves up a cool six-figure…

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