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Maybe You Should Just Give Up on Writing. Don’t You Think it’s About Time?

2 min readApr 11, 2025

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A meat grinder processing books into social recognition and money, but mostly poop.
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Why did I even create this draft and start writing? Will I even publish it? I didn’t even take the time to sit comfortably behind my laptop, my usual writing companion. I’m half lying down writing on a phone; that’s how much I value the subject. It just annoys me.

Another Article About Writing

Why are we so obsessed with articles on how to write and be successful? What do we think we’ll get from them? Aren’t they all just giving very basic advice? Don’t we all know we should sit down, write, and not expect results?

Are we writing for engagement or because we have something to say?

Why do we Even Click

I find myself always opening them and being disappointed. I think with SO MANY claps and comments, how can it be trash? But it mostly is. Who are those people commenting on bad articles like this? Are they fishing for interaction on their own insipid stories? Are we writing for engagement or because we have something to say?

The Interaction Game

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