![Most People Do Not Write, And They Survive](https://i0.wp.com/sterlingterrell.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1-6.jpg?fit=1024%2C703&ssl=1)
This made me laugh as I read it.
We stress, and block, and struggle with discipline.
Then we worry about writing quality, and writing quantity, and then acceptance.
Fear holds us back.
Asking: Will anyone want to see what we pour out on the page?
Now and again it is refreshing to not take it so seriously.
Most non-writers survive, after all.
“It’s easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren’t writers, and very little harm comes to them. —JULIAN BARNES, Flaubert’s Parrot“
–Annie Dillard, The Writing Life