I Swear This Time I Mean It

Sometimes I have so many ideas floating around in my head that it's hard to focus on what is at hand. I'm sitting here in my room with John Mayer currently playing in the background. My novel is opened on my desktop and yet, here I am, not working on it. I looked over it. I edited it a bit. I scribbled some notes in my writing journal. And I realized the one thing that has been holding me back.

Self doubt.

I've been told so many times that I wouldn't be able to accomplish what I wanted to. That it was all a wasted effort so why even try? You'll never make it. You are just wasting your time. Those words finally soaked into my brain and hindered me from being able to do the one thing I have always wanted to do. The one thing I was always good at.

Well enough is enough. I'm going to get rid of this self doubt and prove everyone wrong. I don't need it.


And by the way, everything in life is writable only if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath