Separate your writing from how you feel about your writing

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve written about how Cory Doctorow consciously separates how he feels about his writing from the writing itself:

“My writing epiphany was there was no relation to the way I felt about the words I was writing and their objective quality. … You can’t tell what’s good and what’s bad while you’re writing it. … Once you start thinking about what you’re writing, you lose the ability to stop writing it.”

Verlynklinkenberg on Isak's Blog

Separate your writing from how you feel about your writing