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Stats Doesn’t Mean Shit. That’s How You Write Hits.
This is the simple formula I use to stay away from unnecessary worries.
Top writers say your stats are everything. “They’re your performance review.”
Well, I have this to say them: You can’t control someone’s mood and bad hour and countless other things that matter: Someone opens your work, the internet shuts down. Someone reads the first line of your story excited to continue reading, her daughter woke up.
Please forward this to them.
I learned this the hard way: Here’s the true performance review: When you finish something, you aren’t happy to finally finish it after messing up a lot in the way but you are happy to finally have written this story.
You don’t care what others think but you’re happy to have written the story because you wanted to. That’s 200/100 performance.
Here’s how you get into that stage.
Write what’s hard for you to not write
You can’t control the quality of your work but you can control it by writing what you love to. Writing what you love means you know what you are writing. It’s not foreign. Foreign-ity requires force. Familiarity is when the juice comes out.
