Encouraging Writing Advice You Didn’t Ask For

Sarah Grunder Ruiz
2 min readOct 2, 2020
Photo by hannah grace on Unsplash
  1. It’s okay if you’re not very good yet. Everyone starts somewhere and you ABSOLUTELY can improve. It’s hard work, and you have to want it and put in the hours, but you CAN get better. ⁣
  2. Small progress is still progress. Every word you write is one that didn’t exist in your project before. ⁣
  3. It’s okay to take steps backward. Often, they really aren’t steps…

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Sarah Grunder Ruiz

Check out my debut novel: Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships, out November 23rd, 2021 with Berkley Romance. Learn More at sarahruizwrites.com