Wasted years writing the wrong things

My writing was terrible because my voice was never my own

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I would get up early and grind out my five pages for the day, but those pages were, on the best days uninspired, and on most days a waste of paper destined for a scrunch and throw towards the garbage can across the room.

My goal was to write fiction, and I was inherently bad at it, but my self-imposed struggle was to…