This learned piece on overcoming self doubt or cultivating self doubt will liberate so many writers from a self absorption which will stop them writing all together. Your book references are on top of our game and should be on every writer's bookshelf. All power to your writing elbow. Just write on. Wendyxxx
I know these feelings so well. I know them presently having just finished a novel I've re-written more times than anything else, and there's a window to put it out too. And I think yeah yeah yeah, so what, shift a few copies, you've pissed your life away on this rubbish. And then I move to the piano I bought at Christmas and think, you can sod off too, left me in the gutter with nowt, think you're getting my time again- not a chance. And none of the catechisms and aphorisms work- just hollow fridge magnet rubbish. And then after a few days, it's the emptiness and futility which strikes hard, and I'm reaching for a pen again, sick as a monkey, but reaching for it nonetheless.
This learned piece on overcoming self doubt or cultivating self doubt will liberate so many writers from a self absorption which will stop them writing all together. Your book references are on top of our game and should be on every writer's bookshelf. All power to your writing elbow. Just write on. Wendyxxx
Thank you Wendy
I know these feelings so well. I know them presently having just finished a novel I've re-written more times than anything else, and there's a window to put it out too. And I think yeah yeah yeah, so what, shift a few copies, you've pissed your life away on this rubbish. And then I move to the piano I bought at Christmas and think, you can sod off too, left me in the gutter with nowt, think you're getting my time again- not a chance. And none of the catechisms and aphorisms work- just hollow fridge magnet rubbish. And then after a few days, it's the emptiness and futility which strikes hard, and I'm reaching for a pen again, sick as a monkey, but reaching for it nonetheless.
What you write is never 'rubbish,' Warren. Far from it. Be kinder to yourself and your creativity- they deserve it x