Thanks for sharing this! I'm staring to think confidence is like bluff, quite frankly. I've gotten better at writing, but I've never felt more confident at doing it, and a lot of the writers I admire don't seem to have gotten more confident either; just better at hiding their lack of confidence! I really, really wish there was a magical universe in which the demons of doubt fell silent and let us produce brilliant prose in peace, but I am sceptical that it ever happens? (the trick for me is telling the "editor", who has reasonable doubts and wants to make the story better, to the "destroyer" who just wants to smash everything into small little pieces for the heck of it. It's a hard balancing act and I'm not sure I ever get it right. Or that I ever will).
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I'm staring to think confidence is like bluff, quite frankly. I've gotten better at writing, but I've never felt more confident at doing it, and a lot of the writers I admire don't seem to have gotten more confident either; just better at hiding their lack of confidence!
I really, really wish there was a magical universe in which the demons of doubt fell silent and let us produce brilliant prose in peace, but I am sceptical that it ever happens? (the trick for me is telling the "editor", who has reasonable doubts and wants to make the story better, to the "destroyer" who just wants to smash everything into small little pieces for the heck of it. It's a hard balancing act and I'm not sure I ever get it right. Or that I ever will).