I can hear the inner critic saying whining, "but whhhyyyyy??? Why have a 'focus?' Why have all these 'constraints' and 'topics' you're going to talk about?"
"Isn't that the opposite of freedom? Isn't that uncreative? Weren't you doing fine before just writing whatever you wanted? Don't you like your writing better when it's spontaneous? Don't you see how you'll just turn into some canned pedant hectoring people with your opinion about stuff? Don't you know you'll turn everyone off and they won't want to read that? Who wants to read someone's endless boring lecture? Don't you want people to like you? If your goal is to connect with people, you're going about it exactly the wrong way. Why can't you do anything right, anyway? Plus, isn't this the millionth time you're trying to 'write?' What makes you think this time is any different?"
"WELL DONE, LOSER. YOU'RE GOING TO FAIL...AGAIN."
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