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Feeling Insecure About Your Writing? Good! You’re Doing it Right
The creative struggle is fraught with doubt. Keep shipping.
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
The answer, I have found, is straightforward:
“Keep shipping.”
There’s so much I’ve got to tell you, and I will, as it comes together.
I’ve been writing a book for a while now. I’ve been hesitant to say that, because I’ve had a hard time accepting that I’m really writing it. It’s so easy to hit eject and play it off that I wasn’t actually writing — just… playing around.
No. I’m writing.
It’s coming along like pretty much every crazy accomplishment in my life. I’m flailing, and throwing wild shit out there and sifting through piles and piles of notes looking for a few gems.
Musicians, painters, filmmakers, they all tell me this. They’re horribly insecure about their work. They’re constantly second guessing themselves. “Is this any GOOD?”
And somehow, it all comes together. It smooths out into something that may or may not resemble my original idea, and hopefully so…
