We all have an inner critic!
It’s that individual who is constantly saying things like, “That’s terrible writing, why don’t you just give up?” or “You think you’re a writer? That’s an awful story line, no one is going to read this!” or “You think you can be a bestseller, or make money from your writing, not if you keep writing this drivel!” And the list goes on and on and on. So what do you do when your inner critic who is speaking with your mother’s, father’s, or high school English teacher’s voice, won’t shut up?

Well you can do many things, these are my favorite though:
1. Remember that your inner critic cannot follow through on whatever threat scenarios it might be proposing such as keeping you from being a bestseller, making no one buy your book etc. The inner critic pretends it has the power to back up the threat, but only you can make the decision to stop writing, only you can create the deadly failure scenarios that the inner critic claims are going to happen.
2. Treat your inner critic like you would a real life critic, say thank you for your opinion, and then …
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