I feel like a total dolt for saying – ack, writing – this but every time I see something like that I have two reactions. The first is a tacit excitement thinking, hey I could do that. That sounds interesting. I should do that. Maybe this is just the ticket to dip my toe into actually submitting any kind of original writing, ever. Buuuuut…then it’s invariably followed by crippling self-doubt and I end up dismissing any thoughts of even considering participation because, in my head, there’s a crapfest running around going, no one wants to read anything you have to say and nothing you write is worth submitting to anyone, ever. 😦
I feel like a total dolt for saying – ack, writing – this but every time I see something like that I have two reactions. The first is a tacit excitement thinking, hey I could do that. That sounds interesting. I should do that. Maybe this is just the ticket to dip my toe into actually submitting any kind of original writing, ever. Buuuuut…then it’s invariably followed by crippling self-doubt and I end up dismissing any thoughts of even considering participation because, in my head, there’s a crapfest running around going, no one wants to read anything you have to say and nothing you write is worth submitting to anyone, ever. 😦
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I think inspiration followed by doubt is the natural order of things. It’s doing it anyway that we have to learn.
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