3. We are scared and doubt ourselves
We want people to read our words but at the same time, we fear criticism and negative reaction. We compare ourselves to others and we often come up short. We doubt that we are original or that people will even want to read our words. We worry that we have opened ourselves up too much to the world, and then we fret because we haven’t been truthful enough.
"Easy reading is damn hard writing"
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (via ninagarcia)
scared to death
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), “Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?” chances are you are.
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident.
The real one is scared to death.—Steven Pressfield, “The War of Art”
via aristocraticelegance: courtkneebriscoe
(Source: onecupofcreativity)
