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

[(Anonymous)]

You don't have to be "as good as" the writers you admire. Your ideas are worth sharing, because no one else can share them quite the same way you can.
Relevant: two cakes.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/e7acb5a8e16d00b85b5d13f0579b1044/tumblr_inline_n8vl57qwvD1r1mylc.png

I'm at the point where I consider myself pretty good at writing, but a lot of that comes from actually writing. I've made it a point to write at least a little bit every day (or edit bc that helps too), and have kept that up since November (ie NaNoWriMo) 2016. Every little bit helps.

And honestly, I can look back at the things I finished only a few months ago and see so many places I could have done better. That, in and of itself, is a sign of progress. You can't fix the mistakes until you learn to see them, after all.

"Taking a step back" doesn't have to mean "stop writing", like another anon said. You could do a short prompt, or a crackfic, something low stakes.

Brute force method: the "said your writing sucks" jar. (Like a swear jar.)
To "pay up", you either have to say one (1) genuinely positive thing about your writing, or write 100 words.
Bonus: recruit your friends to hold you accountable and/or join you in the suffering.

(Welp this comment's all over the place, lol.)