Why I Couldn’t Write — and What I Know Now

Think no one cares whether you write? This insight will change your world.

Emmeline Chang
The Writing Cooperative
3 min readJul 31, 2019

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I went through years where I faced so much perfectionism and fear of failure that it was a heroic effort to get any writing done at all. For six years, I worked on three stories — without finishing a single one.

“My Work Doesn’t Matter”

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