We’re so good with the negative voices: You idiot, what kind of an idea is that? Who do you think you are to be writing a book? Why are you sitting there in your bedroom slippers writing about your boring life? Who cares?  When that voice starts chirping in your head and chipping away at your confidence, here’s what you do, listen to another voice that’s saying: Just do the work. Tell your story, it’s important. Have faith. If you’re sitting at Starbucks or at the library it’s probably best not to say this out loud, but if you’re home alone – say it loud. And often. 

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“Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.”  Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write

(from A Year of Writing Dangerously)