If You Don’t Know Where To Start:

Cecilia Seiter
1 min readMar 25, 2021
  • Pull all volumes of past work onto your desk. Let them remind you of how far you’ve come, and how much more there is left to do.
  • Bathe in sunlight
  • Get drunk enough to start fantasizing, but not so drunk you can’t hold your pen
  • Remind yourself that one day you will die, and that day very well could be tomorrow, so you might as well get started today.
  • Read the works of the masters. Challenge yourself to be even half as good as they were
  • Break habits
  • Create habits
  • Put your fucking phone down
  • Light a candle
  • Aggressive quotas
  • Think about the last thing that made your heart feel like it was going to burst
  • Imagine the look on peoples’ faces when it’s finally published and in their hands
  • Prove your self-doubt wrong
  • Romanticize everything
  • Just start and see what happens from there.

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Cecilia Seiter

Hi, I’m Cecilia. I’m a professional freelance writer and occasional poet. https://ceciliaseiter.com/