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

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

My dear Sir
Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.
A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.
Truly yours,
Oscar Wilde

A flower blossoms for its own joy and Kiss equates this with writing for one's own pleasure. Literature is an art and I apply all of this to writing as well.

I write what I want, when I want, how I want--I do not conform to what is right or wrong, good or bad. I don't believe in categories. Certainly if I read something and think "This is terrible," I keep it to myself because who am I to judge what is terrible and who are we to say what should and should not be written? I will never be a proper critic, a critic to me is someone who has no soul and only finds pleasure in tearing down hopes and dreams. I'm a terribly optimistic person who enjoys doing what she wants when she wants and I have no authority in any matter. Plus I like pissing people off "Oh no that horrid writer has written something again!?" *snicker* Keep being offended and keep talking that crap because Kiss is gonna keep on keeping on. ;)

When someone's negative and you let them beat you down then ultimately they win. Don't wilt because they want you to!