Mantra Matters

Part of our Creative Writing Series

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What do you hear yourself say? This is the inner critic that has a place in your soul. Perhaps you think this is just part of you. It is only a voice that you have grown comfortable with. Disrupting the process is the next step to your pathway of unblocking. Every writer deals with self-doubt and this comes from this inner critic. Let’s look at an example, Stephen King,

In On Writing King said of his self-doubt, “Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be a difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.”

Years later, in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, King explained how his fear of failure manifests in dreams, “The one that recurs is that I'm going to be in a play, and I get to the theater and it's opening night and not only can I not find my costume, but I realize that I have never learned the lines.” Despite years of success King tells Rolling Stone, “…