How to Keep Writing When You Feel Inadequate

How to Keep Writing When You Feel Inadequate

As writers, we all deal with a lack of confidence from time to time, but some writers feel plagued by it. If you allow yourself to wallow in these feelings, you won’t write enough to improve your work. If you don’t improve your work, you’ll never build a writing career you love.

Use these strategies to keep writing even when you’re full of doubt and insecurity, and ultimately reshape how you think about writing.

Why We Stop Writing: 3 Lies Writers Need to Stop Believing

Why We Stop Writing: 3 Lies Writers Need to Stop Believing

How many articles, blogs, or books have you failed to write? Or have you ever started one of these projects and then hit a hard halt? Are you stumped at why you stopped writing?

Eighty percent of the time writers stop writing is because of three lies they tell themselves.

Knowing what these lies are will help you notice them creeping into your writing process, which is the first step to preventing them from convincing you to quit writing.

How to Stop Overthinking Your Writing: One Author’s Journey in Surrendering to the Process

How to Stop Overthinking Your Writing: One Author’s Journey in Surrendering to the Process

My motivation for writing my first book was to understand my unique approach to helping schools and nonprofits. You could say that my enthusiasm and curiosity had been leading me, and my mind needed to catch up.

Then my life fell apart.

A dream about my teeth falling out of my mouth pushed me to surrender, so I let go of my business-plan approach to life in favor of answering a calling.