WHY I HAD WRITER'S BLOCK FOR SO MANY YEARS...

Yesterday someone said to me, "I read your last post in the Google Translate format, and it sounded REALLY RUDE in Hungarian."

I was like, "Google Translate?!!! How could I possibly prevent THIS from happening in the future?!"

God... Then I realized, THIS is why I had writer's block all those years!

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WRITER'S BLOCK is when we worry about what the most obscure groups of people might think...

(for example, "Google translate readers", Uncle Barry, old classmates, trolls, that ex...)

And, we believe that we actually have CONTROL over what they may think.

We then GIVE UP, thinking, "I just can't do it. I can't please everyone to that degree."

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What if the goal of writing is NOT to please people?

What if the goal is to share our deepest truths?

What if it is to let people know that they are not alone?

Or what if it is simply to share a beautiful moment... like me yesterday when I realized how much I LOVED my town?

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My post yesterday was written in ENGLISH...

The term "shit town" really has nothing to do with "poo, excrement, or bowel movements", like Google Translate might think...

It basically means a "BORING town"... which I then disproved later on in the post.

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To everyone reading my posts in Google Translate... "You will be reading some crazy shit!"

But I will continue writing anyway!

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Let me know if you'd like me to help you overcome your writer's block, performance anxiety, or internet anxiety... so that you too can accomplish your online dreams.

To the writer in all of us...

Marni Penner

Anxiety, Social Anxiety & Internet Anxiety Coach