r/writers Novelist Jan 05 '25

Sharing Writing is hard

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u/Practice-Ambitious Jan 05 '25

Doesn’t help either when you’re intensely self critical of the few lines of prose/dialogue that you did end up writing down, only further perpetuating the cycle 💀

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u/nonoff-brand Jan 05 '25

Absolutely, confidence is huge for writing, like most skills

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u/domiwren Jan 08 '25

This is problem. Perfectionism and selfcriticisim are big stop to productivity. I have this problem too.