We’re in the middle of a short series on writing habits here on the Daily Writer Podcast, and this has been a lot of fun. Thanks for joining me.

Today we’re going to talk about one of the hardest, yet most important, practices to develop when you’re building a writing habit. Here we go with #6:

Keep writing even if you think it’s bad.

Maybe this has happened to you: you write a piece (blog post, social media post, podcast, article, email, etc.) and you don’t think it’s that great. However, somebody else loves it.

It’s baffling but it’s true: we are not always the best judge of the quality of our work. As someone once said, “What you think of me is none of my business.” And there’s some truth to that when it comes to how others perceive our writing.

When we’re writing, we tend to judge it, but it’s important that we realize we don’t always know when something will resonate with someone. In other words, it’s almost impossible to be objective about our own work. So, keep on writing even when you don’t think it’s very good.

William Faulkner said, “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.”

Plus, when you keep writing, it’s the only way to actually finish something. If you’re always in editing and revision mode, and never in creation mode, it will take forever to get something done. So just keep writing and you can go back and revise later.

Question: Do you feel you are objective about your writing? Be honest.