Taking Your Book Project More Seriously? Please Don’t.
What you call commitment might actually be fear in disguise.
You were writing just fine. Here and there. When it came. Not every day, but enough.
Then came the thought. Maybe this could be something. Maybe it’s time to take it more serious.
And just like that, the flow got nervous. You started managing the unfolding. You made a plan. You stopped natural writing.
That’s the curse of taking it seriously, it turns a living impulse into a fixed idea. Something to finish. Something to perfect. Something to judge.
The voice that got you this far, the one that showed up when no one was watching, doesn’t care about your calendar.
It doesn’t want discipline. It wants daylight.
So please, if the urge is still fresh, don’t strangle it with seriousness. Let it be rough. Let it be lost. Let it be whatever it is right now. You can call it a book later.
