How To Deal With Self-Doubt As A Writer
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Today I'm talking about self-doubt, one of the most common experiences for writers.
What does self-doubt feel like? Your writing is terrible, you’ll never be any good, you shouldn’t bother because it’ll never go anywhere, no one will ever buy the book.
The truth is that everyone feels like this, even mega-famous, bestselling, authors. Example from Thrillerfest
I cancelled launch drinks when I published my first novel (originally Pentecost, later relaunched as Stone of Fire) because I was afraid of what people would think of me.
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You will feel self-doubt, you will be afraid, but in order to become a successful writer, you need to learn to live with that and create anyway, publish anyway. Use your journal to write down your feelings, but don’t moan too much. We all have self-doubt. We write and publish anyway. Because we’re writers.
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