Camp Pep: How to Fight the Voice of Doubt

Camp NaNoWriMo is nothing without you, our incredible participants. Today, Bryan Young, writer and NaNoWriMo participant, shares how he combats a constant voice of doubt:

Sometimes when I write there’s a little voice that tells me that no one is going to care about what I have to say. It asks me who is going to read what I write, let alone care about what I’ve written. It asks me why anyone would want to read my prose at all, let alone pay for it.

It’s a constant voice of doubt.

Hell, even as I write this, I’m telling that little voice to shut up every time it suggests I delete all of this and start this letter over from scratch and pick a different way of inspiring you. A way that exposes less vulnerability.

But this is something that every writer deals with. It’s that voice that says you’re not good enough. The one that tells you not to worry about submitting the story to the publisher. The one that tells you it doesn’t matter if you finish that novel. Or screenplay. Or whatever.

That little voice is a total jerk.

Don’t listen it.