Posts Tagged ‘Inner World’

Mindset is arguably the most important part of any writer’s make-up. This is because writing a book is a mentally challenging project, where many fears and negative beliefs are likely to crop up. Writing isn’t just about stringing words and sentences together in a magical way. It’s about toughening up your inner world, staying determined, keeping focused, exercising a tonne of self-discipline and believing in yourself and your work unfailingly. And for a beginner writer, maintaining calmness and clarity of mind during such a mammoth task is not as easy as it may seem.

Here are just some of the ways in which writers suffer most:

• My writing isn’t good enough
• Maybe this idea has already been done, and it is probably much better than my version
• My writing reveals too much of my personality
• My writing reveals too little of my personality
• I just can’t seem to find the time to write

We’ll deal with these negative beliefs (and a few more) within the days ahead…

With Love
The Word Queen xxx