On Writing and…not writing

One of my writing partners recently wrote me looking for affirmation to discontinue her blog. She’s blogging elsewhere and needs that time to actually work on her writing projects. Maintaining her blog was feeling like a chore.

On the outside, this kind of thing is clear. If you aren’t enjoying it and you can’t see that it’s serving a purpose, stop doing it. Yeah….but writers tend to internalize things. What if someone was looking forward to that next post? What if? What if? What if?

There is a...