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Hitting Publish Is Not As Scary As You Think
So what’s stopping you from publishing your work?
I have always loved writing. When I was a child, I enjoyed writing stories, songs and poems.
I loved writing that much I even decided to write up all the capital cities of the world into a notebook for future reference, despite the fact I already had a book with them all in!
If there was an excuse to write I found it.
Somewhere along the way, I misplaced my passion for writing. Maybe it was when my Dad bought me and my brother a Nintendo 64 for Christmas, I’m not sure.
All I know is that until I started studying to go to university, writing was not one of my passions or priorities. It wasn’t even a thought.
What rekindled my desire for writing was not what you might think. It wasn’t reading a book, although that did help, it was writing essays in school.
During my last two years of school, I wrote a lot of essays. A lot of my classmates saw this as a chore, one found it so boring he bought his essays on the internet instead of writing them himself!
Despite the negative opinions towards writing I enjoyed. I loved writing essays about historical subjects. I loved the research that came with it, and I loved…
