Ten signs that you need to quit writing

Welcome to my demotivational talk

If you need encouragement as a writer there’s enough pseudo-affirmative crap out there waiting for you. It’s not that I don’t want to thread on snake oil seller territory but that I don’t want to waste my time or yours. This is because I truly believe that writing isn’t for everyone. And I don’t think it’s elitist to say “writing isn’t for everyone”. I, for example, wanted to be an astronaut when I was a child. Sadly I wasn’t born in a country with any realistic claims to the space race and neither was I inclined to put the work necessary to become an astronaut. If someone had told me “quit trying to be an astronaut because you live in a Banana Republic and you are too lazy to be one — become a writer instead,” they would have made me a huge favour. Instead it took me until I was about twenty-five or so to realise by myself that my fantasies about being an astronaut were just that, fantasies. Not that I’m comparing writing with being an astronaut… Anyway, I digress: here are ten signs that you need to quit writing.