Recently I read an article titled Why Writers are the Worst Procrastinators by Megan McArdle. While reading this I found myself relating to many points being brought up. Especially the point about being a good student but when it came to doing something out of your comfort zone we froze up. Partly because as writers we are afraid of being judged and not being good at something.
I also liked how she talked about our education system being wrong due to their trying to teach everyone the same and not conforming to each individual students unique needs.
Another point was how we as aspiring writers never get to see the "rough drafts" of novel. We are only exposed to the final perfect copy so we began to think that writers write great on the first time. It would be interesting for the final copies of a bestselling book to be exposed to the public just so we can see the stages of drafts a work goes through before publication.
Overall I think this article opens peoples mind to the vulnerability of writers especially when publishing something new. This would be a great and informative article for everyone to read
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