auroracloud | Jun. 26th, 2019

Thought I should link to this, via

marthawells who also has an essay in it. The Writer's Book of Doubt. It's coming out next month. I think I'm going to need it. Here's the blurb:

Impostor syndrome. Thinking that your writing sucks. Feeling targeted by the rejection cannon. Despairing that no one is ever going to read your stories. Lost in Submissionland. Overwhelmed by radioactive brain weasels.

The Writer’s Book of Doubt contains practical advice and inspiration for dealing with the problems of the writing life.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that description resonates. And the collection of writers sounds like people whose words I actually do want to hear (well, read).

Still have mostly spent the day in bad brain chemistry land, but there have been better moments, and at least I've been taking care of myself and taking things off my schedule for the next days.

Today's Writing

At one point I managed to read fairly much novel research and make notes about it. As for things that actually add to my word count, I added a bit to a supporting character sheet, and I now continued one of my many unfinished fanfics. This one's more just stream-of-thought about characters rather than a story, but who knows, maybe I can make it into something at some point. Nothing else was inspiring me.

Tally

( Days 1-21 under the cut )

Day 22:

alexcat,

alexseanchai,

auroracloud,

carenejeans,

cassini,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

sierranovembr,

silveradept,

st_aurafina,

sylvanwitch,

talkingtothesky,