No one can tell you how to live your life but you.
You might need an outside perspective to help you see the big picture*, but if someone’s offering you advice that feels out of alignment with who you are (say, telling you to stay in a loveless marriage or to throw caution to the wind and leave everything behind for a life of travel), you don’t have to listen to them.
The same goes for writing advice.
Can’t get yourself to write every day? Prefer storytelling to writing prose? Edit while you write? It’s all good so long as what you’re doing feels in alignment with your process, so long as it feels like honoring your brain.
*By which I mean, seeing the big picture of your life as it is and understanding what’s true and what’s a lie can be hard to do when you’re in the middle of it. How are you supposed to know that other people put their clothes in the hotel closet and dresser if your family only ever made a mess of their suitcases while on vacation?
Outside perspective is key to knowing what’s objective truth and what’s something you picked up in childhood, decided was true, and haven’t examined since. Book a coaching call with me and I’ll help you pick that apart for yourself so you can stand firm in honoring how your brain works.