Confidence Crashes

We asked…

Hi everyone 🙂 Do you have confidence crashes in regard to your writing? What do you do about it?

— Women Writers (@WomenWriters) October 15, 2013

The responses were overwhelming!  And it’s not just unpublished writers who suffer from confidence crashes. Here is a selection of your answers.

@WomenWriters I do but if I feel frustrated with one title, I work on something else for awhile. It seems to help

— Kathryn Kaye (@KathrynKaye35) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters Keep on writing, write anything, until the mojo returns. Above all, write something every single day.

— Liz Anderson (@liz_lizanderson) October 15, 2013

I WATCH COMEDY STAND UP! @WomenWriters: Hi everyone 🙂 Do you have confidence crashes in regard to your writing? What do you do about it?”

— Kathryn Player (@funnyiswrite) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters I read writers who are worse than me (I keep some books on my Kindle just for those times).

— Lisa Pedersen (@UrbanMilkmaid) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters constantly, but I just write through it. When I look at the scene the next day, I see it wasn't as awful as I thought…

— Tess Martin Adams (@tessmartinadams) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters When I'm low and can't write, I clean my surroundings. Clean spaces energise me – clear the cobwebs literally and mentally.

— Lyn G Farrell (@FarrellWrites) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters I drink a scotch on the rocks and smoke a cigar…then I keep writing…good, bad, or indifferent.

— Angela Pietrello (@screenwriterkid) October 15, 2013

@cottamarts @WomenWriters Sleep on it and read it through the next day. Possibly console myself with bessenjenever in the meantime…

— Helen Grant (@helengrantsays) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters Never! Everything I write is brilliant. *falls over laughing* Keep writing. There's bound to be something brilliant in there.

— Linnie (@TanteWillemijn) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters drink

— MelissaCole (@MelissaCole) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters I skim through selection of excerpts on Amazon bestsellers to reassure myself that there's plenty of other crap out there too!

— Kat Black (@KatBlackAuthor) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters Yes, it's ongoing. So I beg for reassurance from @Bobosvensk @elizabethbuchan and @LizJensenWriter and Twitter.

— Marika Cobbold (@Marikacobbold) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters Draw something. I get my writing confidence back pretty quickly after that.

— Groaning NicAntSaoi (@pongogirl) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters Regularly. I'm reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott to smooth over some of the crazy. It's helping. That and beer.

— Beth Deitchman (@beth_deitchman) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters I read something I wouldn't normally read. It refreshes my head.

— Verity Holloway (@Verity_Holloway) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters where does one begin …?

— Elizabeth Buchan (@elizabethbuchan) October 15, 2013

@elizabethbuchan @WomenWriters Seriously? You? No! There's no hope for me then 🙂

— Aliya Ali-Afzal (@aliyaaliafzal) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters I usually have no choice but to ignore it and write anyways, hoping to prove myself wrong.

— Natalia Sylvester (@NataliaSylv) October 15, 2013

@WomenWriters @helengrantsays well, it might not work all that well but at least you forgot what you were blocked by! 🙂

— MelissaCole (@MelissaCole) October 16, 2013

Category: Contemporary Women Writers