31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 18

Nix the Negativity.

I once knew a writer who loved to write. but hated the writing business—every part of it.

He hated the idea of having to do any marketing.He hated the reality that pitching a book to agents or publishers would garner more rejections than acceptances.He hated the fact that copywriting projects frequently meant revising work to meet the expectations of clients.

And so ultimately he gave up on the whole writing life, blaming everyone and everything else instead of his own in...