On the days that I don’t believe in my writing,
and I’m having trouble seeing the worth of strangling words into sentences to
hang a story by a gnarled plot rope, there are three things that help me:
1.
Prayer
2.
Reading other people’s posts about writing
3.
Reading my own published writing. True, it’s all
poetry, short fiction and devotional writing, and most of it is on-line, with
little in print. But it helps. A lot.
Even when I see mistakes in those published pieces . . . I still can say, “There,
that’s me. I’ve done it before, I can do it again.”
What helps you breathe past the suffocation of writer’s
insecurity?
Take a moment and breathe . . . then go write!
If you want to find some amazing, encouraging, inspiring blog-writers, go check out The Insecure Writer's Support Group hosted by Alex J. Cavanaugh, the awesome blogger and author of CassaStar and his recently released Cassafire!
If you want to find some amazing, encouraging, inspiring blog-writers, go check out The Insecure Writer's Support Group hosted by Alex J. Cavanaugh, the awesome blogger and author of CassaStar and his recently released Cassafire!
