{"id":30067,"date":"2016-10-03T12:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=30067"},"modified":"2016-10-03T12:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:55:49","slug":"how-a-writer-quiets-his-self-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/10\/03\/how-a-writer-quiets-his-self-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Writer Quiets His Self-Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-doubt is one of those things you&#8217;re going to contend with as a creative person. It&#8217;s just how it is. It sucks. I know. And I&#8217;m sorry. Thing is, this isn&#8217;t math. Creative projects do not have an easy DO THIS, THEN THIS HAPPENS outcome. Like many careers, it&#8217;s wildly unpredictable, and given over to forces beyond your control &#8212; worse, we can easily doubt the parts we\u00a0<em>do<\/em> control. We don&#8217;t trust ourselves and we fail to have faith in ourselves, and self-doubt worms its wormy fingers into the gaps and starts pulling us apart.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke about this the other day on THE TWITTERS, and this is the result:<\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/self-doubt-is-a-jerk-so-you-should-stop-listening-\/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/self-doubt-is-a-jerk-so-you-should-stop-listening-.js?border=false\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/ChuckWendig\/self-doubt-is-a-jerk-so-you-should-stop-listening-\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;Self-Doubt Is A Jerk, So You Should Stop Listening To It&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-doubt is one of those things you&#8217;re going to contend with as a creative person. It&#8217;s just how it is. It sucks. I know. And I&#8217;m sorry. Thing is, this isn&#8217;t math. Creative projects do not have an easy DO THIS, THEN THIS HAPPENS outcome. Like many careers, it&#8217;s wildly unpredictable, and given over to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-7OX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30070,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30067\/revisions\/30070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}