Four Pieces of Writing Advice You Should Totally Ignore

Here is some of the advice I’ve gotten about writing that I’ve learned it’s best to ignore.

Content writers are always looking for suggestions that will help them make it in the business. This is because writing is one of the hardest professions to be successful in. Since writers know this, advice is one of the most frequent topics you will see them discuss. Often there are suggestions that become the advice of the moment and these are rewritten again and again since they are popular. When others saw the advice in multiple places, they assume you must follow it if you want to do well as a writer. But over time I’ve learned that some advice that seems reasonable on the surface doesn’t work very well. Here are some of my top picks for writing advice you should just ignore.

This advice started as a backlash to the frequently given recommendation advising new writers that in order to be successful you had to publish every day. In some cases, people recommended twice a day was even better.

A dialogue began with many writers, new as well as more advanced saying that they had tried this but the pressure and stress had caused them to want to quite writing entirely. So, at that point, the advice flipped with many writers now stating that you don’t have to write or publish every day to be successful, you just have to write “regularly.”

The problem with this was that nothing was said about the need to determine what “regularly” meant for you. I had been publishing once or twice a day for a while by the time I heard the flipped version of the advice. I was definitely getting burnt out by then and I welcomed this recommendation with a sense of relief.

I soon found out that the advice was a disaster for me. Without the instruction to set goals for my writing, I let myself off the hook. I fell back on the idea I’d when I’d started writing that I could wait to feel inspired or motivated and if I didn’t, it was fine to not get something out that day. As the weeks passed, I found myself writing less and less.

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