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Validation Is a Cult.

Burn It.



By Wendy C Allen

Dear writers:

Stop begging strangers to tell you you’re allowed to write.

Stop asking Reddit if your character is “too Mary Sue.”

Stop workshopping the same prologue with your critique group for 9 months like it’s a damned IVF pregnancy.

Stop asking your fucking Aunt Linda if your dragon romance “makes sense” when she still calls comic books “Satan’s colouring books.”

Validation is the slow poison that kills your momentum.

You want to know how I publish a book a week?

I don’t ask permission. I don’t wait for feedback.

I don’t need a pack of insecure MFA students to form a circle jerk around my comma placement.

I write.

I publish.

I move on.

That’s the ritual.

You know what happens when you wait for validation?

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

You stall.

You rewrite the same chapter forty-seven times.

You pick at your own sentences like they’re scabs you’re too scared to let heal.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are building an empire out of raw, unfiltered, un-beta-read chaos.

Do you think the zombies care if your metaphors are fresh?

They don’t.

They’re eating your protagonist’s spleen whether your pacing is tight or not.

Readers want to feel something.

They want audacity.

Momentum.

Something so real it doesn’t care if it’s flawed.

Beta readers?

They’ll sand off all your sharp edges and leave you with a beige blob of “technically correct” prose that reads like it was ghostwritten by an AI trained on oatmeal and mild disappointment.

You ever notice how every writing group starts out excited, then turns into a silent graveyard where no one ever finishes a story?

It’s because they’re all afraid.

Afraid to suck.

Afraid to shine.

Afraid to finish without gold stars pinned to their ego.

Fear is the soul of the validation cult.

And perfectionism is its god.

I don’t need validation to write.

I have a character.

I have a park bench.

I sit my ass on it and I fucking write. and when I get done writing it, I fucking publish it. Yes, without editing. Yes, without beta readers. Yes, without asking Reddit if they think it is any good or not.

That’s why I publish a book every month, while others spend a decade polishing one chapter and never publish anything.

I have a smell, a sound, a moment. And write it down. If I see it, I write it. If I hear it, I write it. If I smell it I write it. That’s what I do. That’s my starting point. The ritual begins. The words arrive. I hit publish.

And then I walk away.

I don’t fuss. I don’t obsess. I write. I publish. I write the next thing.

You want a reader? Stop editing and fucking hit publish.

You want an audience? Stop begging for gold stars from beta readers and keep publishing.

You don’t get fans from beta readers.

You get fans from consistency, guts, and having the audacity to release a story while it’s still steaming.

Validation isn’t just useless.

It’s a trap.

If someone loves your writing, you’ll start writing to please them.

If someone hates your writing, you’ll start writing to prove them wrong.

Either way, you’re not writing for you anymore. You’re performing.

You didn’t become a writer to crawl around grovelling for gold stars like it’s kindergarten story time.

You became a writer because there’s something in you that has to get out.
So let it out.

Loud.

Messy.

Now.

You want validation?

Here it is:

You are allowed to write.

You are allowed to publish.

You are allowed to skip the gatekeepers and put your story into the world like the feral, fearless creature you are.

You don’t need a critique group.

You don’t need an editor.

You don’t need a 30-comment Reddit thread full of people who don’t write books telling you how they would write yours.

You just need to show up.

Write what you see.

Write what you hear.

Write what you feel.

And then push the damn thing into the world and start the next one.


| ©2025 Wendy Christine Allen | All Rights Reserved |

The Park Bench Method To Writing (and the series of articles and rants that go with it)

I've Written An Entire Series on The Park Bench Method of Writing. Here are more of the articles in this set: 

The Park Bench Method To Writing (Just the article - no prompt lists)

The Park Bench Method of Writing (the really old long, rambly post from years ago; the long page with over 10k writing prompts and lots of lists)



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