6 Ways to Stop Worrying About Being Wrong and Publish Your Content Anyway

Kayla Lords

Kayla Lords is a freelance sex writer, podcaster, blogger, all-around sex content creating human, and she really likes creating content. As a writer, she focuses on sex and kink primarily on BDSM and power exchange. She works with private clients to write their content and manage their social media, while also co-hosting two podcasts, running a YouTube channel, and managing multiple blogs. Let's just say, she stays busy and wants to keep it that way. Kayla is an international speaker and an award-winning sex blogger. She believes we are stronger together as a community than we are isolated and apart. We all deserve to get paid for the work we do, but until we understand our cumulative power, we'll all wonder if we're "the only one" doing this smutlancing thing.

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  1. Mischa Eliot says:

    One of my most difficult things is hitting that publish button sometimes. Yesterday I cleared out my OneDrive of all of my writing. Yep, ALL of it. It’s safely backed up on an expansion drive.

    I put two stories back on today (while writing this comment) that I want to focus on. I did this because I feel like I’m not focused at all. I have all of these ideas and desires. I spend time opening one unfinished story/blog post (or previously finished story that was removed from Radish that I’d like to rework) after another trying to figure out what to do with it.

    I put so much pressure on myself to get things done, that I am not getting anything done (other than finally finishing all of old X-Files and watching the new X-Files). Some days I don’t even turn on the tv when I get home from work and I’ll do the same thing. Flipping from one story to the next, to the internet, to a book on writing or a fiction book I’m reading. It’s kind of like being stuck in a loop or the Supernatural episode Changing Channels. (And it really sucks ass, especially because it’s not funny like that episode.)

    I had all day yesterday to work on writing and the only things I did were to backup two websites, clean up my hard drive, and empty my OneDrive. I stared at a mostly blank work document that I had open. I talked to people. I gave in and turned on X-Files.

    Any tips on getting out of my own way? Love you and all you do. XoXo

    • Kayla Lords says:

      I think it’s the pressure you’re feeling that’s slowing you down. And at some point, as hard as it feels, you have to pick something and just start. Eenie-meenie-miney-moe it if you have to, but commit to a thing. Sometimes I can sense what’s most important to me and sometimes I go with what might get done the fastest — it all depends on how I’m feeling at that moment. But even if my feeling changes, I stick with the thing I’ve committed to until it’s done. It’s all about retraining yourself out of bad habits. Very little of how we behave is about personality. It’s mostly about habits. And if we can find the right motivation to change our habits, it’s easier than when we berate ourselves about what we “should” do or what we’re supposed to do.

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