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Losing Confidence in your Writing
That crushing feeling of not believing in your words
“Am I good enough?”
This is one of the most dreaded questions I ask myself. Unfortunately, it’s a question I ask myself everyday.
The Insecurity of a Writer
For the past few weeks, I stopped publicly writing. I’m usually the type of person to develop a “push through” mentality and fight my way through the challenge ahead of me. Lately, that hasn’t been happening. Worse still, I hit one of my worst writing slumps in quite some time.
Some would define this as a bad case of writer’s block — that nasty feeling of looking at the screen and you’re unable to summon words.
I think it’s something more personal. Simply, the lack of confidence in my own words. Recently, I have struggled to find that spark in my writing.
More likely, maybe I’m just scared. No matter how strong your determination is, fear of judgment can be crippling. I have faced rejection and have wondered if my writing isn’t as good as I thought it was. It’s entirely possible that my writing was simply not a good fit and it’s just that — wasn’t meant for that publication.
