Some Advice to Help You Pull Through When the Doubt Creeps In
8 “Rules” For Coping With Your Writing Insecurities
When I started writing, I was crippled by doubt, almost like everyone else who takes the craft seriously.
Would I be any good? Am I doing justice to my characters? Would anyone like to read my stories, or is this pointless? Am I just talking to a wall? Am I that lonely?
With persistence, some soul-searching and a big dose of faith, I overcame those mental obstacles and finished three novels.
I believed I was already done with doubt, until the moment I decided to write some thoughts in the form of an essay and publish it on Medium.
I was sure about my writing abilities and my ideas, even if there were still many things to learn. I had conquered the long-form to a satisfying degree, but Medium required of me something completely different, besides having to write to a language that I’m not that dexterous with as my native one. So while I was facing the new unknown, the doubt snuck again behind me.
And then I realised the same strategies that helped me face my insecurities about the long form might prove useful here as well.
So I made a list. And here it is:
