Episode 21: Is Being Focused on the Outcome More Than the Experience Affecting Your Writing?

What if being too focused on getting an agent or a publishing deal is impacting on our writing? Product can become much more important than process and performance if we focus on outcome over experience. With that focus on the outcome, we may be missing out the practice stage - practice out-performs success every day, because we won't get success every day ... but we can practice every day and that practice helps up get better and better at our writing. Plus, if we focus on the experience, are we more likely to enjoy our writing?

With our sights on getting an agent, getting a publishing deal, we may be missing out the practice stage, setting our expectations too high, leading to an inevitable disappointment, and missing out on the enjoyment. If you are not getting the outcome you crave, ask yourself, have you put outcome before experience.

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