I really want to be a professional writer in the future (as I am still a teen), especially of both fiction and nonfiction. As of now, I am in a sort of cycle where I am not writing like I at least used.

This article was a kick in the ass I needed. I have often made promises to myself to write more consistently every day, but oftentimes I fail to keep those promises and my talent has sort of suffered as a result.

As Stephen King says, read a lot and write a lot if you want to be a good writer. I have been trying to follow to some degree the “read a lot” rule but not necessarily the write a lot rule all the time.

What can I do? I honestly feel sick of wasting my time, of letting my talent go down the drain, of wasting time on the Internet instead of reading and writing (however truly valuable a huge chunk of Internet writing is to my mind).

Have you ever faced this, Chad? If so, I would please ask for an uplift, because I need it.

I like your quotes but feel they take away from the power that your older articles use to have.

Cal

of course