I’ve given up on writing more times than I’ve given up fast food (I’ve got a fierce ‘dad bod’). The chief reason for the repeated rage quit from the battle with the blank page is that I feel like everything I write is bad.

I can never quite get my point across as succinctly as I’d like, and my tone is never exactly how I feel it should be, and in terms of my writers ‘voice’, well, I’m as hoarse as the heaviest of smokers.

However, every time I think I’m done with trying to be a writer I’m reminded of an important fact — writing is fun. I really enjoy it. It’s meditative and constructive, and there are few comparable feelings to the one you get when you finish a writing project.

So how do you overcome being a bad writer? For me, it was a combination of implementing a few guidelines (I hate referring to anything to do with writing as a ‘rule’) and simply, as cliched as it is, putting the work it.