{"id":331,"date":"2020-04-25T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2021-01-16T00:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:27:13","slug":"how-to-have-confidence-in-your-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/how-to-have-confidence-in-your-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Have Confidence In Your Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy to have confidence in your writing. Especially if you&#8217;re yet to publish. Writing is a vulnerable art. You&#8217;re exposing the inner workings of your mind for the world to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the first thing to understand is that your writing doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect. Even the best selling authors and writers, draft, re-draft, and rewrite before even their editors get to it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there&#8217;s an inherent urge that we have to please people. That held me back quite a bit and had me mulling over plots for weeks because I was trying to find that magic culmination of my ideas that everyone would enjoy. However, there is no way to please everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Write What Feels Good To You<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandon Sanderson one of my favorite authors, writes every <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/outlining-your-book-with-the-story-circle\" target=\"_blank\">plot<\/a> of his book. The branching paths that he doesn&#8217;t know if he&#8217;ll like or will be accepted, he&#8217;ll write those out, even if it&#8217;s rudimentary. Then, he picks out the pieces that he himself likes, that are true to himself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen King said, &#8220;If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.&#8221; He meant to say that you really just can&#8217;t&nbsp;please anyone, and you have to be truthful to yourself to succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter was rejected 12 times before someone decided to take a chance on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Have Confidence in Your Writing Now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait until you&#8217;re a published author to gain confidence in your writing. Don&#8217;t worry about pleasing everyone. The fear of failure and self-doubt will hinder you from reaching your greatest creative potential. Don&#8217;t think about confidence, or self-doubt, simply delve into the creative depths of your mind, and write!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start writing for free today with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingwriter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LivingWriter<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not easy to have confidence in your writing. Especially if you&#8217;re yet to publish. Writing is a vulnerable art. You&#8217;re exposing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"views":2275,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}