"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
What's new in my world became best weapon against self-doubt. LJ has been so weird lately.
In truth? Nothing. I am as thin-skinned and insecure as a writer can possibly be. Plenty of people I know, like, and respect have told me that it would eventually change--but I'm a self-doubter to the core of my being. It may even explain how I end up holing up in less creative writing pursuits to pay the bills. Things are uncertain enough without the cacophony of my own quirks...I guess the easiest way to describe it is that my work's fearless but I'm not. When I actually manage to write creative work, the work's not the problem. Plath was much braver than I am, but we're also wired quite differently.
That is weird. I put that comment on someone else's post and did ask you what was new in your world. huh. Poor LJ and the Russian Political hacker situation.
I play a game with myself that I'm somehow pissing the universe off when I'm not engaged and sharing my creative work. If I stop, there will be hell to pay. Doesn't take the insecurity about the quality of my work away. But I do know that you will never get better unless you keep writing and throwing it out into the world for consumption.
Here's some audio of Plath. I'd have to dig to figure out which was from which era, but her intonations became more feminine and refined over time: http://www.sylviaplathforum.com/sp-audio.html
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What's your best weapon against self doubt?
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In truth? Nothing. I am as thin-skinned and insecure as a writer can possibly be. Plenty of people I know, like, and respect have told me that it would eventually change--but I'm a self-doubter to the core of my being. It may even explain how I end up holing up in less creative writing pursuits to pay the bills. Things are uncertain enough without the cacophony of my own quirks...I guess the easiest way to describe it is that my work's fearless but I'm not. When I actually manage to write creative work, the work's not the problem. Plath was much braver than I am, but we're also wired quite differently.
How about you?
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I play a game with myself that I'm somehow pissing the universe off when I'm not engaged and sharing my creative work. If I stop, there will be hell to pay. Doesn't take the insecurity about the quality of my work away. But I do know that you will never get better unless you keep writing and throwing it out into the world for consumption.
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http://www.sylviaplathforum.com/sp-audio.html
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