Only When I Told People I Was Writing Did I Actually Start To Write

and only then have I had the ‘expectation’ to continue.

Why Expectation Is Good?

When the expectation of another meets the expectation of myself, it’s a healthy expectation.

So, when they ask me how my writing is going, if I haven’t done any for a while, my own expectations haven’t been met so I feel it more deeply from such a simple, innocent and open question.

If I have been writing freely before this question is asked, I welcome it in with open arms as I say, ‘great!’ and I mean it.

Before telling anyone that I was writing I had written lots of different things: diaries, travel blogs, letters and I had even attempted a few short stories too. But I was a writer stuck in a very closed room terrified to ever share what I had written.

I was too attached to the work I wasn’t even that proud of.

So, it was only when I told people I was writing did I actually start to write. It might sound funny, and even a little backwards but as soon as someone, or better yet, lots of people, start to expect a piece of writing from me do I feel the healthy pressure that it brings to produce something.