What's the worst #writing advice you've ever gotten?
In university I once went home in tears because a prof I had, who was a published author, told us that "real" writers have just an insatiable need to write all the time, and if you didn't feel a deep, constant need to write maybe you just weren't a "real" writer.
Now that I'm an adult and I talk to other writers, every "real" writer I know is a procrastinating train wreck that prays for the sweet release of death like 90% of the time they spend writing.
So like... idk about that one, prof.
@LucyWinter Non-fiction writer here. I enjoy writing, but writing becomes work, and torture, once you sign a contract and have a deadline. The only way I could be productive was to make myself sit down and write every day, even if I only managed to edit the work from the day before. Usually, though, I'd get in a groove once I started, and I'd get some work done. It's getting started every damn day that is hard.
