Comments on: On Self-Doubt http://danishapiro.com/2009/10/on-self-doubt/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DD Beardon http://danishapiro.com/2009/10/on-self-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-106 DD Beardon Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:02:23 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/2009/10/on-self-doubt/#comment-106 Spot on. After writing for a living for many years, I still have that constant nagging voice that will not 'shush' even when I ask. You've brought great comfort to me that this is perfectly normal and could even be a good thing. I'd never quite looked at it that way before and had started to believe in the voice. I also love your description of the trenches 'all the way down there in the trenches of the process--with my small, flickering candle, trying to tunnel through the darkness.' I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Spot on. After writing for a living for many years, I still have that constant nagging voice that will not 'shush' even when I ask. You've brought great comfort to me that this is perfectly normal and could even be a good thing. I'd never quite looked at it that way before and had started to believe in the voice.

I also love your description of the trenches 'all the way down there in the trenches of the process--with my small, flickering candle, trying to tunnel through the darkness.' I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

]]> By: oritte http://danishapiro.com/2009/10/on-self-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-399 oritte Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:28:06 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/2009/10/on-self-doubt/#comment-399 I love this: "Grace Paley used to say that if she loved a sentence enough that she wanted to get up from her desk and walk into the other room to read it to her husband, she knew she had to cut it." I just finished my very first novel, and in hindsight, this sentiment could not be more accurate! I do believe that it is necessary to experience this, in order to fall in love with writing and build the confidence necessary to keep going! I remember my "favorite" most poetic passages (now gone) fondly as proof (to myself, because at that nascient stage, what else is there?) that I wasn't delusional in my pursuits :) Thanks for the wisdom Dani! I love this: "Grace Paley used to say that if she loved a sentence enough that she wanted to get up from her desk and walk into the other room to read it to her husband, she knew she had to cut it." I just finished my very first novel, and in hindsight, this sentiment could not be more accurate! I do believe that it is necessary to experience this, in order to fall in love with writing and build the confidence necessary to keep going! I remember my "favorite" most poetic passages (now gone) fondly as proof (to myself, because at that nascient stage, what else is there?) that I wasn't delusional in my pursuits :) Thanks for the wisdom Dani!

]]> By: oritte http://danishapiro.com/2009/10/on-self-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-74 oritte Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:28:06 +0000 http://danishapiro.com/2009/10/on-self-doubt/#comment-74 I love this: "Grace Paley used to say that if she loved a sentence enough that she wanted to get up from her desk and walk into the other room to read it to her husband, she knew she had to cut it." I just finished my very first novel, and in hindsight, this sentiment could not be more accurate! I do believe that it is necessary to experience this, in order to fall in love with writing and build the confidence necessary to keep going! I remember my "favorite" most poetic passages (now gone) fondly as proof (to myself, because at that nascient stage, what else is there?) that I wasn't delusional in my pursuits :) Thanks for the wisdom Dani! I love this: "Grace Paley used to say that if she loved a sentence enough that she wanted to get up from her desk and walk into the other room to read it to her husband, she knew she had to cut it." I just finished my very first novel, and in hindsight, this sentiment could not be more accurate! I do believe that it is necessary to experience this, in order to fall in love with writing and build the confidence necessary to keep going! I remember my "favorite" most poetic passages (now gone) fondly as proof (to myself, because at that nascient stage, what else is there?) that I wasn't delusional in my pursuits :) Thanks for the wisdom Dani!

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