WAYS TO IMPROVING
YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE AS A WRITER.
Guess you remember vividly what I told you about our next writing
tip.
It’s about you.
Yeah you heard me right!
It‘s all about ‘you’ and ‘yourself’.
You may be asking why?... Yes! the reason is because,
Conquering yourself is synonymous to conquering your self-confidence.
And without self-conquer, it will be very hard for you to ever make it as a
writer.
The difference between mediocre writers and famous writers is embedded in this 14- letter word called ‘self-confidence’. The former have a very
poor image/self-confidence about themselves and as such, it reflects in the way
they write. While the latter always believe that they write better and they keep
improving with practice.
Let me ask you; are you scared to let anyone read your latest
short story?
Or perhaps, you have just drafted an E-mail and you are busy agonizing about it.
Lacking self -confidence can spell doom to even one of the
finest writers around.
Truly, am not going to bore you with a very long assay about
the art of mastering and improving your self-confidence.
Many ways to improving it abound.
But the real question is which of them truly works?
A lot of fellow writers have written countless of what causes
it and ways to getting over them.
But one thing I discover myself was that, they all often try
to shove what they think works for them down your throat, arguing that because
it worked for them, it will work for you as well.
No doubt about it. To some, it actually does.
But the truth is that it had never worked for everybody.
Like I told you in my previous blog post, apart from PERFECTIONIST mentality, the second most common causes of the so-called writers block,
is lack of self-confidence.
I sincerely
want us to finish dealing with all the major hindrances countless teeming
writers encounter, while setting out to write, before going further to giving
you basic rudiments about writing and crafting a good novel, be it sci-fi,
horror or story-telling etc.
Listen, a lot
of guys out there have always nurtured the dream of becoming a published writer
but they have often stood wondering why their dreams never come to fruition, why because they have never bothered to pay close attention to their poor self
image.
Enough said,
let me quickly take you to the universal rule.
In fact, it’s
one of the few words commonly spoken about by people.
But the
truth is; how many people have actually paid real attention towards putting it
into practice?
Talk they say is cheap!
Let’s
quickly get down to business.
I have taken
much of our time to building you up, so that this two common-but-all-powerful words, am going
to reveal to you will not be thrown to the winds again like before.
heheehe......
I know why I
said this.
My friends,
Look, for you to write, it takes a lot of patients and determination.
No doubt
about that. And don’t let anybody get you thinking that it’s all roses.
Look my friend,
after overcoming the perfectionist altitude.
You can
read-up my previous post about PERFECTIONISM.
The next to
conquer is you, you, and yourself.
Yeah!
There is no
stopping you in your writing quest except your very self and I meant every bit of it.
Let me show
you why.
Another name
for self-confidence is self – esteem.
Having a
very good image about yourself makes you 'believe' in whatever you do.
Now, here is
the key ‘BELIEVE’.
There is a
popular saying that whatever you believe you will achieve.
And I must
tell you that this is one of the truest saying I have ever known.
Let’s think
about this, if you don’t believe in yourself, who else will?
The answer
is nobody. So, it all begins with you.
Believe in
yourself and your self-confidence will be back. No long grammar. It’s as simple
as that.
The next
step is practice,
practice and practice.
You must
have heard the saying that practice makes perfection.
So now, the ball
is in your court.
Have you
noticed why some professional footballers, after being confined to bench role
for sometime often play ball as-if they
are amateurs.
The secret
is, because they have not been having game time, their fitness level is low,
and as such, their confidence level will be low as well.
So learn to practice and get your
self-confidence back.
There is no
short-cut towards becoming that writer you had dream of. The key is writing,writing and writing..... and you will be amazed how improved a writer you will become in no
distant time.
Have a great
day!
Please don’t
forget to share with us your success.
See you at
the top!
Iyke Udenze.
