Tips on How to Keep Your Head Up?
This is more so a question than a post...
I love writing. Obviously. And everyone has always told me that I am great at it. So how come when I reread my writing, I feel like throwing it out every time? I know I know. We are our own worst critic. But lately I find myself doubting myself more and more. I can never seem to get writing urge up high enough to actually write more than twice a week. Oh, I think about it all the time. Plotting, creating, rewriting. But I am losing confidence in myself. Maybe I shouldn't ever look at that dang grading system Word has. And maybe I actually should believe what my friends say when they read my writing and all they can respond is a big "I love it!" I know rough drafts are just that: rough. But my inner demon keeps yelling at me that I am just not good enough. I don't know...
My question, to you writers out there:
How do you get past your own worst enemy? aka...Yourself
I love writing. Obviously. And everyone has always told me that I am great at it. So how come when I reread my writing, I feel like throwing it out every time? I know I know. We are our own worst critic. But lately I find myself doubting myself more and more. I can never seem to get writing urge up high enough to actually write more than twice a week. Oh, I think about it all the time. Plotting, creating, rewriting. But I am losing confidence in myself. Maybe I shouldn't ever look at that dang grading system Word has. And maybe I actually should believe what my friends say when they read my writing and all they can respond is a big "I love it!" I know rough drafts are just that: rough. But my inner demon keeps yelling at me that I am just not good enough. I don't know...
My question, to you writers out there:
How do you get past your own worst enemy? aka...Yourself
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In all seriousness though, I just try to remember that I'm my own harshest critic.
At the end of the day, I'd rather be writing something, even if I suspect that something sucks, than not writing at all.
"The first million words are practice".