The best writing advice I have ever received

Joely Black
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readJun 18, 2018

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After failing so hard the first time, the person who gave it to me isn’t even a writer.

I have been struggling to write for a very long time.

In truth, I haven’t wanted to. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it, including setting up a life where I’m constantly working, always looking for things that I have to do that are “more important”, that have higher…

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