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I'd be interested to hear thoughts on these points. Do you agree they are signs a writer should, as the title puts it, give up on their dreams?
I'd be interested to hear thoughts on these points. Do you agree they are signs a writer should, as the title puts it, give up on their dreams?
Aspiring writers – or successful freelance writers who are ready to move on – know it’s time to pursue different goals when they:
- Have lost their joy and passion for writing their novel or pitching their magazine article ideas
- Aren’t making as much of an effort
- Are “talking the talk” but not “walking the walk"
- Can’t overcome fear of failure, or fear of success
- Spend more time surfing the internet and reading forum comments than writing or blogging
- Are pursuing goals that aren’t in line with their beliefs, values, personality, and future plans
- Realize that their writing goals – and the process of achieving their writing goals – doesn’t resonate with who they are
- Dread the thought of pursuing or achieving the goal
- Have lost their creativity
- Resent the time and energy the goal takes
- Can’t overcome their laziness or lack of self-discipline to write