Keeping up confidence in your own writing

[lanalucy]

I was posting this in a writing comm and thought it made a good topic for here, too, so I snatched it. :D

Pretty sure every writer has experienced insecurity about some part of the writing process, moments where we felt discouraged or frustrated. I've only been writing about three years, and I've had plenty of those periods of What the hell am I

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[lanalucy]

For me, it's all about breaking it down into its tiniest compartmental parts, then checking them off. If I allow myself - even for an instant - to consider the ENORMITY of what needs to be done, I lose hope. So I focus on small, measurable tasks.

This is an excellent strategy. I do get bogged down sometimes when I think about how much work is ahead of me to fix something or to finish a story.

Cannibalize it for parts.

lol I love the gif. It's so apropos!

I acknowledge that what I feel is "perfect" at this moment in time is going to make me cringe in a year, so there's no reason to bemoan it. Letting go allows me to start something new. And that's s where I learn the most about improvement.Letting go to start something new, and learning more about improvement. Yes. Both those things. New, good stuff can't make it into our lives if we're still holding on to the old, icky stuff, or the old good stuff for that matter. Great philosophy. And I learn about myself through my writing, not just how to improve, and writing has been a really

[lanalucy]

Sometimes I am a buddha. Sometimes you are, too. We are all buddha. :D

OM.

[kdbleu]

I'm wired to be happier than most, but I'd be lying if I said that I never had bad moments.

It's funny, I am not generally happy. I am optimistic and determined, but it's very grit it out. And I like it. I like fixing and problem solving. But when my coping mechanism fail me (and writing definitely is one) I literally don't know what to do. There often isn't a fix for my fix.

[kdbleu]

I was actually asked to stop taking math classes when I was in high school because I was failing and too determined to quit. So yeah... that's me.

[lanalucy]

Ugh. I hate to quit. I hate to let something get the better of me.

[kdbleu]

exactly.