I missed my own fiction targets

I launched my Story Cabin Substack last year, planning to publish one flash fiction story per week.

I failed spectacularly.

I'd bounce between posting two stories in some weeks and nothing for weeks, eventually stopping completely for an entire year.

I told myself I was too busy with client work, didn't have enough ideas or experience, and that flipping from non-fiction writing to fiction was too taxing.

This translated to not finding the time to write fiction.

But when I look back on this phase, I can see that lacking time was absolutely not the issue.

The issue was that I kept hearing seemingly very clever excuses in my head that gave me an out.

Just thoughts.

Writing fiction and building an audience from scratch again is teaching me what I already teach others:

You'll never feel perfectly ready because your thoughts are never perfect. And it's those pesky thoughts that hold you back, not whether you can actually create and have the time to do so.

The pattern is always the same. I wake up motivated and plan to write. Then a thought arrives telling me to wait until later, or that I'm not inspired enough, or that yesterday's work wasn't good enough to continue.

I believe it and don't write.

The next day brings the same hesitation with a different excuse but identical result.

Now, I'm publishing about three new fiction stories a week. My next milestone after 150, is 500 subscribers. I'm more productive again, because I remembered not to take my thoughts seriously. They show up, but I write anyway.

You can write regardless of how you feel. Once you start, you feel better anyway because the resistance dissolves the moment you're in action.

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When you see that resistance is just mental noise, showing up becomes more natural. You'll surprise yourself.

Most mindset courses teach you to fight your thoughts or replace them with better ones. This one shows you how thought actually works in clear steps, so resistance loses its grip entirely.

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Alex