A Writer's Insecurities and Fear

       When the floodgates of self-publishing opened up for all writers who ever had the dream of publishing a book without the gate guards (traditional publishers) stopping you, many new writers started to write, and write, and write.  Of course, this ended up opening a whole other set of problems.  You might be wondering what I am talking about.  Well, for the first time the non-published writer was actually going to be able to obtain their dream once and for all and get published, right? For some, this was the ultimate dream, especially if they had been wallpapering their walls with literary agents rejection notices. But, and I say but, because this ended up opening a whole different set of problems for writers who actually now could get published without the traditional publisher. (So what's wrong with that, you might be asking). Well, now the newbie writer was actually going to be able to publish something that they had written for the whole world to read and judge, and I do mean judge!

     Here is a video talking about the insecurities of writers and what some of you, if you are new to all of this, will probably feel at some time or another.

     Here is a video about how to deal with your writer's fears and insecurities.

     Then as writer's, we start to doubt ourselves and whether we should be writing what we are writing.  Here is another video which might help you with this.

     And here is a video that gives you (6) things nobody tells you about being a writer. 

     

    So here you have it these are the problems which face many writers.  Are you one of those writers?  I know I have been at times, but I continue to write because no matter what anyone says to me I have found that this is truly my passion. And, folks I'm not about to give up this gift of self-publishing that we writers have been granted.  So let's get back to work and start writing!

     In my next blog entry, I'm going to segway from this topic to a subject that as newbie writers, and also as seasoned writers you'll have to deal with at some time and that is the DREADED BOOK REVIEW.

     So stay tuned!