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A Writer’s Guide to Confidence: How to Go From Self-Criticism to Self-Compassion
If you’ve ever sat down to write and immediately found yourself flooded with self-doubt, you’re not alone. This happened to me for such a long time. I did course after course, completed qualification after qualification, and took part in various training that was writing related and I still felt like a fraud. I NEVER had that confidence. I realise now that writers of all levels struggle with the inner critic – that nagging voice that tells us our work isn’t good enough, that we’ll never live up to our expectations, or that we don’t have anything valuable to say. Trust me when I say this is complete and utter B*LLSH*T!!!…
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From Low Confidence, to On Fire (F@ck You)!
I allowed my fear of being judged to control me for a long time. When I went to university to study for my BA, I was a mature student who was 37 weeks pregnant with my third and youngest child. I had to take 2 weeks off following the birth (I was told I had to withdraw if I took more time off), and I was told they would send me the work. I was studying creative writing, and we were learning how to structure our fictional work to book standards. I missed those weeks. I thought I understood it, but clearly, I hadn’t quite grasped it. I kept getting…
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It’s Time to Overcome YOUR Writing Barriers
I remember when I first overcome my own writing barriers. It just a few years ago, and at the time, I was already a published writer at the time. The truth is, I still had demons and even though I was published and had been blogging for a few years already, I still didn’t feel I was worthy of the title ‘writer’. It was only when I worked on building my confidence as a writer and develop what I like to call a ‘Writer’s Mindset’, that I was able to move forwards with my writing. Sometimes, we don’t even realise what barriers we face, but I do have some good…
