The Trick to Getting Started: Writing Like Nobody’s Watching

Mar 26, 2025

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A creative and inspiring banner image representing the journey of starting to write. A person sitting at a desk with a glowing notebook or laptop, surrounded by floating ideas represented as colorful swirls, lightbulbs, and paper planes. In the background, shadows of anxiety and fear fade away as bright sunlight streams through a window. The scene is cozy and artistic, with coffee, paintbrushes, and books scattered around. The mood is hopeful, imaginative, and empowering.

Writing can be the easiest thing in the world to do.

And it can be the absolute hardest.

It’s funny how something so innate, so human—putting words to our thoughts—can feel like scaling a cliff with no rope. And yet, it can also be like dancing in your kitchen, completely free, wildly spontaneous, and weirdly cathartic.

I remember how it all started for me…

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