When You Stop Flexing Your Writing Muscles They Atrophy

You stop growing too

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Writing is a combat sport. And when you’ve been using crutches, you haven’t been growing as much as you could be.

Think of it like this. You rely on crutches, props, and they certainly have benefits. They come with drawbacks too. You forgot how to do things on your own. You used them repeatedly. You relied on them too much. In the process, your muscles atrophied. You relied on a short-term fix as a long-term solution, expecting them always to be there.

You went for the easy win, and you stopped healing yourself. You leaned hard into the extra support and stopped standing on your own strength. You hurt your growth too. You could be farther along if you had just kept working, showing up, doing the hard work.

When your foot comes out of a cast it is smaller than the other one because you haven’t been working it. It is visibly smaller, paler, and weak. Internally it is structurally sound, but the limb can’t do all of the things it used to do. You can’t kick a ball right off, or walk as far without resting. At least not without some physical therapy.

You handicapped yourself by taking the easy path and now, that the help aids and easy paths are gone, you have to stand on your own merits again. Good for you. And, you’re…