Tuesday Tips: Not Giving a F#ck.

One of the most important tips I have learned as an author is to not care what everyone thinks.

Also known as, Not Giving a F#ck.

I encourage you to cultivate this habit, this skill, this attitude. Because it will help your writing. Especially as the last tip in 2020.

There are several benefits to this:

• It helps create your original voice.
• Accepting critiques becomes more useful.
• It armors you against one-star reviews that happen to everyone.
• It gives you the distance that allows you to improve your works.
• It shields you from negative thoughts and discouragement.
• It allows you to write a shitty first draft.
• It makes it easier to release books into the world and move on.
• It allows you to see how absurd people really are.
• It fine-tunes your bullshit detector.
• Everything gets easier, coffee tastes better, music touches you easier.

--Just remember that you are going to die one day. Wasted moments agonizing over what some stranger thinks is a waste of the life you have. Doubly so on Facebook.