How to Overcome the Greatest Challenge in Writing
or: how to handle your self-doubt
When you wake up and before you even make your coffee, the thought hits you that what you do doesn’t matter. That your creative expression is a soulless, placeless, and meaningless endeavor that no one cares about. You don’t even know if you care. Today, you might not even care enough to try.
You stare at the blank page, your blank mind. Nothing seems to be there.
Where is the connection to spirit that everyone talks about, the one that is supposed to make you spill out words that come from a power greater than yourself, that you haven’t chosen yourself to write, but that came to you, like magic?
Before you take the first sip of your coffee, you are so full of self-doubt that you give up before you even start. Maybe some other time, you think. Maybe you should pursue something different.
The Burden of Self-Doubt
There is nothing as vulnerable as the act of creation, because there is no work that is more personal. In creation, in writing, you reveal you. It’s the most personal act you can do today.
But if no one resonates with what you express, when no one shows up to read your work, to clap, or to show their appreciation, then it’s not…
