Writing When You’re Stressed, Scared, or Stuck
It can be difficult to find the right words to finish up your current assignment when you’re stressing out, scared about the future, or stuck on the current sentence. We’re going over how to move forward, what mindset can help, and how to reconfigure your brain to get your freelance writing work done when you’re stressed, scared, or stuck.
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Have you ever had to finish an assignment when you're feeling really stressed out or you're feeling scared about the work or you're really stuck on the right words to try to figure out how to say what you want to say. So what we're going to go over today is kind of how to write when you're feeling stressed out or when you're feeling stuck or when you're really, really in fear mode and you don't really know how to get out of it. So a lot of times when you're writing things, you can run up against a bunch of different things. Like a lot of people run up against writer's block, or they feel fearful that if they turn their work in that their client is going to hate it or that they're trying to do 800 things at once. And that leaves them being stressed out about not only their work, but all these other things going on.
So we're going to walk over kind of how to move forward. And what kind of mindset things can help you move along when you're feeling stress or when you're feeling fear or when you're feeling kind of stuck in your writing thing. Hi, Linda. I see. She just said hi. So if you guys want to say hi in the chat, if you're already here, feel free to do that. If you feel like this is going to be helpful, you know, as we're going along, leave it a thumbs up or subscribe. If you feel like you want more tips about freelance writing. So let's talk about how to move forward. So when you're writing how to move forward, when you're stuck or when you're scared or stressed out is kind of take a step back, think about how to do the assignment, if it wasn't you, and if you weren't working for that client and you kind of just started at a clean slate.
So imagine that your, your working on this thing for the first time, you're seeing it in the mode that it's in and you're trying to just kind of start and move from there. So one of the things that I think makes writers get stuck, or when they're in fear or when they're stressed out is like their mind is just running and they can't grab onto a clear thought there they're kind of reaching for too many things. Or they're just kind of sitting there trying to think of the perfect thing to say, or they're trying to make it. So the editor hires them again, but really you can only do the best that you have right now. And that's kind of why I've always kinda liked that right. One day edit the next day, because you can kind of clear out all the gunk and when you look at it the next day, it's like, you're looking at a different piece.
So when you're trying to move forward, let's say a stress. I think it's best to just give yourself a time block. So just say, I'm not going to worry about anything else. I'm just going to finish this piece and just worry about all the other stuff later. If we try to worry about everything at once, we can't actually focus on the thing we're working on. So try to separate the stress of other things just for a little bit. And if it's all of these other projects, let's say you have a ton of other projects that are going on and you're worried about completing them all or not losing clients or getting paid, or, you know, you have stuff with online school or there's all these other factors. Just try to block it out for a little bit and do just that one little piece. Just do that one piece that you're working on, just write a barf draft and then work on the editing the next day.
If you're scared about the he's like I've been fearful about turning pieces in because I've been worried and what my editors are gonna say, or they're gonna think I'm dumb, or if they think I'm stupid or if they think, I don't know what I'm doing, I think I kind of fall back on that idea of like, this is the best that I can do right now. I'm trying really hard. I'm not slacking off. I've done all these different things. I've tried to get the right sources. I've tried to get the right research. I've tried to pull all these different things together. And the best that I can do right now is this. And if that doesn't work for this editor, it doesn't mean that I can't ever work with them again. It just means right now, maybe we're not a fit. So if you're fearful about turning in your assignment, I think the idea, the mindset of like, this is the best that I'm doing right now.
I'm not slacking off. I'm trying really hard, really helps if you really are slacking off and you're not trying hard. And you kind of like phoned it in. Yeah. That's, that's a reason to stress. I don't feel like you should turn in work where you kind of like half-heartedly went through it and kind of move. This is good enough kind of stuff. Maybe that happens sometimes when you're really off your game when you're tired and you're overworked. But most of the time, if you're feeling fearful about your work and you're worried about what the client's going to say, it's kind of like a reflection a little bit back on you saying like, Hey, like I'm worried what they're going to think about me. And I'm worried about this thing about me, or if they think I'm dumb or a lot of things back on you, but rather than say like, huh, this study is really helpful.
I think it'll help the readers a bunch, or man, this, this quote from this expert, I think will really help people understand this part of the topic. Think if you put the focus back on the work itself and how much it's helping the reader, how much you're clarifying an issue or giving them steps to change things or offering up, you know, unique tidbits on this certain topic, I think that kind of helps move you out of the fear part and more to the helping part. So when you're thinking about being fearful of an assignment, kind of switch it off from you and think about more of the reader, how is this helping the reader? Do you have good quotes in there? Are you giving them a step kind of like a step through, like you either have a narrative piece or a listicle or a step-by-step guide or some kind of piece that you're giving them information.
That's easy to understand if you read through the piece out loud and it just sounds garbly then try to try to figure out how you can make it as clear as possible, but don't be fearful of like what your editor will say or what will happen. Like a lot of editors will work with you and a lot of companies that you work with will work you on edits, but do the best you can and focus it on the audience, focus on helping them rather than worrying about like, everyone's gonna think I'm stupid. That was something that I really struggled with. Hey Amber Hey Tommy. Hey, Getty. Welcome. so let's say you're stuck in just trying to figure out what to say. I think a lot of times when writers are stuck in the, I, I have to be honest, I am not a big fan of writer's block.
I don't think that's a thing. I don't think writer's block is a thing. I think that it's just like, there's just too many things going on, so you can't actually focus. And I think writer's block is what, what people think happens when they're like, no, I don't have this great, magical idea. And I have to say this perfect thing for everybody to dah, dah, dah, like to figure it out. Or I think it's just kind of embracing that barf draft thing. I think that writer's block only happens when you're kind of saying like, no, it has to be perfect. Or I have to say this magical thing, or I have to, this sentence structure is raw. Like you kind of get too far in the nitty gritty. So I found that if you write a barf draft, just, just bar everything on the page is it make, try to make as much sense as you can be as clear as you can, but just put the bar draft out there, then you edit it the next day.
That kind of helps a lot with what people think of as like writer's block. I think if you just kind of say, like, I do this all the time, when I write my stuff, where I'm I write something and I say, I say in all caps, like, say something like this, but not this, or like this sounds dumb. Fix this later. I will write these notes to myself in my barf draft because it helps me keep in the flow. It helps me just keep going without being like, Oh, I'm stuck on what to say next. Like just say it. And then be like, when you go back to editing, fix it, say, Oh yeah, I left myself this note, but now that I'm clearer on my topic, I'm clearer on the flow. I'm clearer on the steps or I'm clear on the listicle now I know that, Oh, this doesn't really make sense, but this does, or you know, you have a quote at the end and you're like, Oh, this would be a great place to kind of like foreshadow that I'll put a little bit here.
And then it kind of ties in at the end. There's a lot of things that I think people think of as writer's block is just, they don't know what to say next because they didn't write an outline or they don't have a full idea of what the piece of how it should flow or how the numbers should align or how they should kind of put together the quotes in a certain order. Or I find that that's kind of, they're just not giving themselves enough tools to get through it. So I think for, at least for me, I used to be a, not an outline person. I used to hate writing an outline. I used to never do it. And I used to fight it real hard. Like I was really anti outline, but I learned that if I just write this bare bones outline, like literally just had headers, right?
Hey, like, this is the intro. This is talk about why this is this. Then the next part is, how does this work? And then the next piece is why are we doing this? And then the next one is like, let's sum it up here. And here's kind of our main point that we want to make. As long as I have those headers, I can organize my quotes. I can organize my research. I can organize my thoughts and then I can write my barf draft if you're kind of working from nothing and you don't have a lot of information for each section, then you're going to struggle. You have to fill it out. I kind of think of it as you have, this is gonna sound silly, but I kind of think of it as like, your outline is like your Thanksgiving dinner, your barf draft is like leftovers the next day.
And then your edit is like the one sandwich that you can make from like the barely little bits that are leftover. So if you ever Thanksgiving dinner, it's really easy to cut it down to your barf draft, which is just like the leftovers and just the pieces that really, you know, are kind of significant. And then you have just the sandwich, like this is the most tidy version of all the things that you had. It's now just in this crisp little format, this little square with a little bread, a little cranberry sauce, Turkey, whatever, you know, stuffing, I dunno, whatever you want to put on your sandwich, but it's like, you can see all this stuff at once. And then it gets whittled down into the barf draft was saying like, I need this piece and I want a little bit of that. And a little bit of this and a little bit of this.
And then you get to the editing and you're like, Oh, that was garbage. Let's get rid of that. Oh, this is the actually a better quote goes up here. It's a lot easier to manage. But if you start with really bare bones, I've, you start with really bare bones outline and you have nothing to really put in your draft. Then you're going to get stuck. You're going to get stuck on the fact that you don't have anything to whittle down. So for me, a lot of times I always start with a big outline. It's, you know, it's multiple pages long. It could be 10 or 12 pages. Sometimes, sometimes it's six or eight pages, but a lot of times it's pretty long. And then as I write my barf draft, I'm deleting things. I'm like, Oh, this doesn't make sense. Oh, this doesn't, you know, whatever.
And I'm pulling the pieces that work for me. Then when I get to editing, I cut down that by half. So pretty much every single time I'm doing it, it gets cut by half. And that's because I'm refining what I'm thinking, but I'm not getting stuck on the fact that it has to be perfect. I'm not getting stuck on the fact that I don't know what to say. I find sometimes that writers want to say the best things in the barf draft phase. Like you don't say the best things in the barf draft phase. You say the best things in the editing phase, when you're very clear about what the rest of the piece looks like. If you're trying to say the best things in the barf draft, you're missing the point, the point is to get a, some sort of cobbled together thing that you can then clean up to make it sound really great.
Your birth is just like, if you literally have to say, like, I think it's this as a sentence. Just say that, just put it down as plainly, as you can sometimes, because I think that's where people get stuck. They get stuck on trying to use flowery language. They get stuck on trying to make it sound perfect. They get stuck at this point where it's not realistic for them to actually write something that makes total and complete sense when they haven't finished the piece. They don't have a full scope of it yet because I haven't written it all. So when you're in your barf draft phase, if you feel like you're stuck, just literally say the plainest thing, you can, okay. You know, like source like Mr. So-And-So or, you know, whatever the last name is said this, and then you put the quote and you're like, cool, all right, I will fix it.
You know, I will go back. And, and if that quote doesn't fit, I'll delete it. Or I'll fix this other piece later. But I've found that your best piece to getting over the stuck part is just literally writing the simplest form of what you want to say, because then when you go back, you're like, Oh yeah, I get it. Now the idea is generally this simple sentence, right? We know what we're saying, because we have this simple sentence. It's kind of like that quote I shared the other day on Instagram. It's like, if you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it. That's kind of what this piece is. We're explaining it simply so that we can go back and give it some jazz later. We kind of, you know, we're we have like the metal we've built the car, but the car needs a paint job.
That's kind of editing. So say it as plainly as you can. And I bet you, you won't have any more writer's block. That's kind of why I don't believe in writer's block. I feel like there's this thing where writers we're writers. We want to make it sound good. We want to incorporate our best ideas. We want to make sure that it keeps our readers excited and reading and learning the material, right? Learning whatever's in the article. But in order to get to that piece, you have to just say it as plainly, as you can, because if you don't, then you don't understand it. Then you end up writing all this flowery stuff. That makes no sense. When you come back for editing. You're like, I have no idea what I meant here. I don't know what this is, but if you write it plainly really easy to figure out how to like flow through for editing.
So if you're feeling like you, you suffer a lot from writer's block, embrace the barf draft. I like, I promise you, like embrace the outline, just write everything you can, like all your quotes, all your research, all the thoughts you want to have, like all the things that you learned like, Oh yeah, I want to make this point. And I think this is really helpful. All that's in your outline, embrace the barf draft. It's literally just all the things like it's going to sound terrible. Like if I showed you my work before and after you'd be like, Oh, this is two different people. And this one person probably can't read, like my first draft is like really bad. It's it makes no sense. Like when I have someone else read it, like I would never have someone else read it. But the times when I've had them kind of read it, they're just like, I don't, I don't know what this is, like, what is going on?
So like the, the difference between your barf draft and your final draft will be immense. They will be looked like two totally separate pieces by two totally different people. If you just embrace the bark draft, that's why it helps you whittle it down. If you just say what you want to say, Oh yeah. It's this generally that when you get to editing, I find that a good night's sleep also helps kind of clear out all the gunk. So that the next day, when you look at it, you're like, Oh, why would I ever say that that's dumb. Boop. And you delete it. And then you have a piece that's sharper. So when you're thinking about kind of the the mindset piece to this, when you're thinking about finishing your work, when you're stressed out, or when you're scared or stuck, the mindset piece is more like moving it away from you thinking about the reader and how you can kind of help them.
Then your mindset piece is kind of like, okay, I just need to get this on the paper. I just need to get these words on the page to say exactly what I mean and the plainest way possible. Let's barf it out. Just that's what I say in my mind. And then I kind of think the next addition to that is that I say things out loud, this sounds really silly. And I didn't do this for a long time because I thought it was really dumb, but there's a lot of times when I'm stressed out that I don't do it as much anymore, but I used to do it a lot where I would just say, stop out loud. If I was stressing about money or if I was stressing about deadlines, or if I was stressing about impressing this client, I would literally just say, stop out loud.
I was just riding along silently in my little headquarters office where we are right now, just typing. And I'm in my is like, you know, I'm typing and writing my piece in my mind somewhere else. My mind is like, Oh yeah, don't forget about this thing. And did it, I'm like stop. And then I would keep typing. And then it would, my mind would be like, Oh yeah, don't forget a boss. And I'm like, stop. And I would just say it out loud. And I found that that is really helpful. So if you have a technique that you feel like works for you, for me, it just had saying it out loud, kind of clicked my brain being like, Oh yeah, here we are. You know, when I get lost in all my thoughts and like my little land in my mind, I have to say something out loud to cut it up, wake me up, kind of break me out of that.
So I find that if I'm stressing about something or if I'm fearful about something or if I'm like stuck or typing or worried about something, I'm just like, stop. Just stop, take a deep breath. Okay. Let's move forward. Let's kind of let that stuff marinate over here. It can marinate over here. We're not playing with it right now. It's just, I don't a little shelf marinating. We're just leaving it alone. Let's get back to this thing. So I find that kind of breaking yourself out of it, whether it's verbal, right? Like whether you say it out loud and you say like, stop, or maybe you take a drink of water, maybe you just take a walk around your house. And you're just like, I need to move to get myself out of here. I need to just, just peace out of my office for a second, whatever it is you need to do like pet your dog or, you know get a snack or you know, like I said, drink of water or go outside for a second.
Anything you need to do to kind of break yourself out of this weird thing where you're like, you're, you're in two places at once. You're trying to write a piece here in front of your face. And your mind is like over here being like, Hey, don't forget this. Anytime you're in that. And that space finds him that works for you. That kind of breaks you out of it. For me, it was the verbal stuff. But for you, it might be something else. Maybe some people are like, I just need to go outside and go for a run. I just need to get this energy out. I just need to get out of here. Maybe that's your thing. Or maybe your thing is you do a meditation. Maybe your thing is you listen to some different music, something to break you out of that cycle. Right?
Cause that's of what happens, right? We're cycling, we're cycling in this hole where we are stuck and all these things and stress and fear and being stuck. There all cycles, we're all stuck in a cycle because it kind of feeds into itself. The more stress pneumo things you think about, the more stress you get, the more you're worried about finishing this article, the more stuck you feel or the more you think about how other people are going to think about your piece or how your editor's going to think you're stupid and don't know how to do your job or whatever your fear is. Whether you turn it in and they're like, we never want to work with you again. You're the worst writer ever, whatever your fear is, it could just cycle. Right? And then you'd be like, Oh, well, if they hate me, everyone's going to hate me.
Or if they think I'm dumb, everyone's going to think I'm dumb. So all this cycle or all cycling, I call it working myself into a ladder. Like I'm lathering. That's what, that's what I'll go in and tell my partner is like, I'm like, I'm lathering right now. And it's, it's just working myself into this ladder of like, Oh, Allah help. Like, and it's just kind of put it down, just put it down for a hot second. You don't, you can think about it later. Like if you're really that worried about it, if you're really that fearful or, or stressed out or stuck on something, it'll come back to you. I can promise you as someone who deals with anxiety, like it will come back. You won't forget it. And if you do, maybe you didn't need to worry about it in the first place.
So when you're thinking about all of these different things, think about your mindset and how, how you can kind of get out of the leather, how you can kind of take a step back, how you can kind of make it about someone. That's not you, you know, like I do that too. I do it all the time where I'm worried about making things about me when I'm like, Oh my gosh, everyone thinks I'm stupid. Like, why am I doing this? But it's more about helping other people understand things. Our writing is a really important form of communication. It's like one of the oldest forms of communication is writing and writing to help people understand things like a blog post is not just a blog post. And an article is not just an article. And a case study is not just a case study. It's helping people understand things.
It's giving them a written that they can read and gather information and maybe implement in their lives or maybe get a new product that'll really help them or learn something new that they can incorporate later on. But when we start working ourselves into a lather, we're kind of defeating the process of doing good writing. So if you ever feel like you're kind of stuck in this thing and you're kind of, Ooh, just, you know, think about your mindset. Like where are you right now to kind of take your temperature on that and see if there's ways that you can kind of move forward. Like do a barf draft, write an outline, talk to somebody, say, stop out loud. Worry about your audience rather than yourself. If that's when your fears worry about maybe something out, like put it on the shelf, be like, cool.
I get it. I'm worried. Let's just put that on the shelf right now and we'll figure it out later. So I hope that piece was helpful. I'm going to hop back in the comments. I'm gonna give you guys a quick pup date. I only have one on the pub date cam right now and he's sleeping. Cause the other one, the other one has now figured out how to get the tree dose. Cause she's sassy. Can you get, can you go lay down? Can you go lay down? I haven't been both hands. Can you go lay down?
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Let's see if there's any questions in here. So yeah. So Amber says I'm gonna pop ambers up here. So Amber says that she loves this tip of keeping things super plain. So often I try to make things too fancy. Yes. This was my problem for a very long time.
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Was my problem for a really long time where I was trying to, I was trying to make everything really fancy rather than trying to just say it like, Hey, let's just say it as plainly as we can. Like, I know we're going to make it fancy later. We can jazz it up once we understand it. But if we don't understand it from the foundation, the house is built on a, like the house is built on a throne of lies basically. Right? If we don't have this foundation, that's, that's as simple as we can make it. That shows that we understand the topic and unders, you know, gives us the underscore basically of the idea of the piece. Then we're messing it up. We're we're making a mistake here. That means the rest of the article is, is just going to you give it one little blow and it falls down.
It's all over. So I, that took me a long time to learn, but it's been one of the most valuable lessons that I've learned as a freelance writer. So Linda says she likes the outline idea with the barf draft. Yeah. So the outline idea with the barf draft and she says, at least your mind starts moving forward. Yes. This is really important when you're just making an outline, you're basically getting the juices flowing. You're like, all right, here's what I'm, here's what I'm percolating on. Here's where I'm going. I don't know if everything in here makes sense, but this is kind of like my general, like, Hmm. This is kind of in the realm of possibility. Then we have our bark draft is we're just like, all right, we're just moving forward. We've got our outline that that is like all of our ideas.
Then we moved to our birth draft where we're already cutting saying like, Oh, this idea doesn't fit here. Oh, this idea doesn't fit here. It's at least percolating further. Right? We've we started the percolation process in our outline. Now we moved into our bar draft. We're we're kind of like percolating, but we're actually getting something out of it. We're getting the draft, we're getting words and phrases and quotes and research and all these things as one sort of generally cohesive thing, but probably not totally. Then as we moved to our editing, we have a to Z, right? We've already finished our barf draft. We know how it starts. We know how it ends. We know the middle. So now that we've said, we've, we've basically completed the general idea. That's when we start like saying, Oh, this piece, doesn't this like little sentence doesn't fit this quote.
It's not quite as great as I thought, let's get rid of it. This research is great, but wasn't there that other part of the study that made more sense. And now in this new context, let's do that instead. This is kind of the refinement piece, but every stage of that process kind of keeps you moving forward. It kind of keeps you making sure that you're finishing your stuff in time for your deadline, but also that it's getting sharper and sharper as you move along. So take a pup date when stress. Yeah. I always take a puff date when I'm stressed. They're actually both there now. So both probably, Oh, he's actually awake. Many's looking for treats. She's got her interested ears up. I don't know if you guys can see them, but she's got both her interested ears up and they're listening and moving. Let's see, Linda says wash. She likes to wash her hands. Getty says taking a longer walk as good for clearing his head. Yes. I like walks to walks, helped me a lot of times clear my head. I don't, you know, I've kind of been off my dog-walking schedule, but that was a really good way for me to kind of get up in the morning and sorry, and clear my head and you know, kind of get ready for the day.
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Let's see any other, how many drafts do I give myself? Okay. This is a great question, Linda. So how many drafts do I give myself? I do one because I just have a barf draft. So I I have one barf draft and then I might have multiple editing drafts. So a lot of times what I have is one outline and it's like, I don't know, 10 to 20 pages, depending on how long the article is and how much information I have. And then I cut that about in half. So it's either five to 10 pages. And then I do my editing and then that gets cut in half. And let's say, I've done my editing. And I'm like, Oh, something's wrong with this? I have someone else read it. And then they're like, yeah, this is this paragraph janky. Like, this doesn't make sense here.
I have someone else read it. Then I'll do another one. But if I have someone else read my final draft and they're like, yeah, this is, this makes sense. Like, this is great. Then I'm done. But a lot of times, like my bar draft, isn't really where I spend time. It's the editing drafts because the refining part is how we kind of step out of our, our mind and get into the reader's mind. The editing part is where we're like, okay, well, if someone knew nothing about this topic, they never, they don't know me and how I write. They don't know how I explain things. Does this make sense to them? Like, that's, that's why like having someone else read my work, I don't have them read it. As often as I used to, like, when I was kind of getting started, I had them, like I had my partner read everything that I had because I was just like, I don't know, help, but now it's kind of, you know, every, so often I have him read it because I just need someone from an outside perspective to read it.
So if he reads it and he says, yeah, you know, like this, this is janky. You need to fix this. This is garbley. Then I make another editing draft. If he reads it and it's fine, then I usually read it one more time, myself, clean anything up and send it. But I don't think the barf draft is where you want to spend time. I think the edits, the idea of editing is where you want to put your mind, the writing it out, I think should be one kind of thing. I think you should just write it out, get everything you want, because the deal is that once you go into editing, you can cut it. So when you're in the barf draft, you can add whatever you want. That's what I tell myself. It's like, Hey, you can have whatever you want, no matter how silly or how unuseful or whatever.
Like if you feel like it's important at this stage at it, because in editing, once we have the full scope of our piece from a to Z, we've already completed it. We can cut it out, we can change it, we can clean it. We can, we can do whatever we gotta do to it. But for me, I feel like the draft part is not the key, like the key piece. It's the editing part where we kind of already have an established idea of what we have and then we're going to cut it and clean it up.
So let's see.
Any other questions? Okay. So I think we've kind of gotten up all the questions on here, but that's an important piece that I think is a really, you know writing part that people forget is the barf draft is they think that everybody kind of writes it and then it's done. I think there's a lot of newer writers and even some seasoned writers that I've met who think that they write an outline and they write a draft and then that's kind of it like their draft is they're like, yeah, I wrote to the word count. It sounds about right. I'm good. And it's kind of like, no no, it's more about the editing part where we are cleaning it. We are making sure it makes sense. We're doing all this other stuff, but if you're ever feeling like you can't complete an assignment, if you ever feel like you're having trouble with it the last little piece I'm going to say before I hop off is you can always go back to your editor or go back to the businesses and ask for an extension.
If you really feel like you need more time. That's something I just thought of. So if you feel like man, like I'm really struggling here. I just, I need more time to think about it. I need more editing time. I need more space. You know, I need more space away from the piece to kind of do all these things. You can always go back to your editor and ask if you can get an extension, sometimes we'll give it to you. Sometimes they won't, but there's been times where I feel like extensions can be really helpful. So if you're ever kind of stuck or scared or you're kind of garbly, and you're kind of, you know, basically in a boat with no oars go back and ask for an extension. If you can't get one, do your best. And just kind of say, Hey, I did my best.
I've said it. I kind of always think of it as I send my pieces out in a boat. Like I put my piece in a little boat and I let it swim out in the ocean and now it's gone. Like it is now living out in the ocean. Basically the ocean is like the internet, right. Or, you know, newspaper stands, but I put it in a little boat and I let it float away. And I that's my like kind of release process is like, I don't hold on to it. I don't get upset about editor changes. I just kind of like release it and I'm like, goodbye, have a great day. And that kind of helps me like move on to my other stuff too. So I hope this has been really helpful. If you ever have questions, you can drop them below in the comments. If you feel like this has been helpful, give it a thumbs up or subscribe and I will see you guys next week, but you guys have a great weekend. Bye.
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