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How I Kicked Writer’s Doubt in the Ass (With Minimalism As My Weapon)
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash I’ve been a writer for as long as I can remember. As a child in the early nineties, my parents bought me a typewriter with tall keys you had to fight to make the letters print on the paper. I loved practicing writing on that thing, and the feedback from the keys felt glorious. There was nothing quite like manually turning the paper and seeing the paper rise with words as I typed up a storm. Later, they bought me an electronic one where you could install a tippex ink ribbon to undo mistakes. Because the keyboard worked just like a laptop keyboard, there…
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Beating Imposter Syndrome
Photo by Fares Hamouche on Unsplash Sometimes, I don’t post for a period of time. I intend to, but I often find that weeks go by or a whole month before I get my writing head on and publish another article. And quite often I’ll tell myself ‘I haven’t had time’. ‘I don’t feel motivated’, ‘I’m too tired’. ‘You know, the usual excuses. The truth is I’ve been struggling with something so many others, especially creatives, suffer with at some point in their lives: imposter syndrome. For those of you who may not have heard of it, it’s highly likely you have felt it at some period of your life, are feeling it…