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What To Do if You Are Not Cinderella?

Are the three hazelnuts just normal nuts?

Elin Melaas
2 min readSep 1, 2022
Photo by Kitera Dent on Unsplash

I’m sorry for the clever and not clear headline.

I want to be a digital writer. I want to write a lot and improve. If I were Cinderella, this would have been an easy task. You know, the whole thing with three nuts and make a wish.

Since the last time I checked, I’m not Cinderella. You are not Cinderella, either? That’s too bad.

What to do?

We have to do the work ourselves.

➡ Practice. Every. Day. Write, read, improve.

Even on the hard days. Especially on hard days.

Today was a day I thought about giving up. I didn’t feel like writing. Sinusitis. And I don’t think I have any ingenuity either, so no one will probably read it anyway.

But here I am, sitting in front of my laptop and writing today’s word. Showing up, breaking barriers, and establishing a writing habit.

This is what we non-Cinderellas have to do. Write each day. Make an effort each day.

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Elin Melaas
Elin Melaas

Written by Elin Melaas

Books, reading, health, parenting, and coffee 📚 MSc in Medical Physics and BSc in Nutrition. Editor at Illumination. Owner of Hooked on Books.

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