Beat the Negativity!

[kitty_fic]

When you hear that little voice telling you that you're not a good writer or everything you're doing is wrong. How do you combat that?

I've had several friends tell me that their writing has been crippled by negative thoughts and attitude.

What do you do when you start to compare yourself to others or have that niggling voice in the back of your mind telling you that you can't do it?

What are some things you have done or can do to quiet that negativity and push forward with a positive attitude?


“Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~Dwight Edwards

Comments

[blossomdreams.livejournal.com]

When I hear my inner critic I try to find something that we'll agree on. Most of the time it's a drabble or a PWP or just something that's silly or out of the fandom that I'm trying to write in at the moment. Other times I just lock the critic up and go look at my other stories that have received reviews. I think back and look at the comments, the positive constructive comments, not the negative ones and try to change my fic from there. When I look at other's fics and go "Wow I wish I could do that!" I just focus on the things I can do like smut, fluff, gen, family, and other things like that. I try to work on getting that better instead of writing a genre I know I would fall flat in. That normally makes the critic quiet down for a while.

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

There's really nothing quite like re-reading nice reviews to quiet the inner critic, is there? :)

[blossomdreams.livejournal.com]

It is quite nice. :)

[kinky-kneazle.livejournal.com]

Yes, reading the nice reviews is always a good way to get out of the doldrums <3