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Re: How do you overcome the voice that tells you you'll never be good enough?

[(Anonymous)]

I came to realize that I'm not the next Tolkien, Achebe, whoever I admire. I'm not out to make the next classic. Sure, I can emulate writers that I enjoy, I can learn my own way with words through them, but I have to recognize that I have to find my voice, not theirs. I use the present tense because it's easy to compare. But I don't find it useful. Yes, practice, write, work on your craft. But it's yours. I have to find the story that's mine to tell, and I have to find the words that want to be used for its does that make sense?

I can't compare myself to XYZ, because I'm not then, and I don't want to be them. We can be impressionist, but we don't all have to do a van Gogh color by numbers. And not everyone will like your writing or your story (think of how many books you've actually read and how many there are out there). But someone will enjoy it. Who knows.