Yes, I know....back on Monday, I said I'd probably be skipping this month's IWSG post but, as I traveled the blogosphere and read/commented on my fellow insecure writer's posts, it made me realize that I didn't have a decent excuse for not participating.
I mean, sure, time has been scarce....but who isn't plagued with that dilemma these days?
So, I yelled at myself and said "Hey, if they're doing it....why aren't you?".
"O.k!" I yelled back..."I'll do it!"
Hence, this eleventh hour post.
So, here I am.
I want to thank Alex J. Cavanaugh for hosting, as always, as well as his compadres for this month M. Pax, Melissa Maygrove, and Karen Walker. Stop by and show them some love, if you haven't already.
Anyway, as a good news/bad news thing, I still have some of the same, nagging, insecurities I've always had and, I think, always will.....
Am I good enough?
Do I have the drive?
Can I even write and, more importantly, can I write in a way that people will enjoy?
The upside is that I haven't really developed any new insecurities to deal with. Hey, we have to take our sliver linings where we can find them, right?
Dealing with insecurities is all a part of being a writer (or a painter, or an actor, or a sculpter, etc.), in my opinion. Once we think we've "arrived", I think it makes us sloppy. We have to stay tough, we have to stay hungry.....
Eye of the tiger, man, eye of the tiger....
(oh, sorry...where was I?)
I guess my point is that, no matter how alone you feel in your writing trials, you don't have to succumb to that sort of loneliness because you're not alone in this.
Ever.
The rest of us are here for you and we know what you're going through.....mainly because we've all gone through it.
I realize this sounds like a PSA, but it's the truth so hang in there and keep writing.
Eye of the tiger, man, eye of the tiger....
