Good morning, everybody. It’s Ginger Moran, PhD, and I am here today to help you get your book done and into the world.

This is a part of series of blog posts that I’m doing about the stages of writing a book from blueprinting it, which is the planning stage, through building it, through throwing a block party, which is writing it and the block party is when you publish and market, it invite all your friends.

Today we are going to be talking about doubts.

There are two different kinds of doubts that assail us as writers.

I’m going to be talking about those inner doubts. So let me just jump right in and let’s start doubting.

I had a professor in college who said that Descartes did not actually say “I think, therefore I am.” He said, “I doubt, therefore I am.” Doubt is that essential to human nature. But we’re going to talk about ways that those doubts can be put on sort of a low boil so that you can actually get that book done.

There are some wrong ways to get started. Let’s clear that ground. That’s what we’re doing at the beginning of these sessions. And then we’ll go on to talk about building that blueprint.

Both kinds of doubts will end in a book stall. Either one will, but put them both together, you have really a stuck book. So we want to talk about those and ways to get them started, right? Because I have been talking about this model of book writing, the things that you need. You need confidence and you need vision. If you’re over here in a fog, you’re not quite sure what you’re writing about, or you’re down here in doubt or both. You might be stuck in frustration if your confidence is really high, but your vision’s not quite clear, you might be doing something and it’s not quite your best work. If your vision is really clear, you feel very passionate about it, but you’re overloaded with doubt. You could be down here in, will spinning and where we want you to be is up here in flow.

So that’s where we’re going today. Your inner doubts, which we’re going to be talking about today, take all kinds of different forms. They can very frequently take the form of perfectionism thinking. Everything has to be totally right. They can take the form of comparisonitis. Somebody else wrote this better. My book isn’t good enough. Somebody’s going to steal my idea.

That all has to do with comparing ourselves to the outside world, which is super normal. We can definitely think we’re not good enough. Thatis often the case for people who are creative, that just kind of comes with the territory. And we also can have that doubt about somebody being mad or hurt. So there are many different ways of dealing with each of these different things. Mostly what you want to do really is to have a plan and just move forward with your plan because all of those doubts will be there.

I don’t know anybody that doesn’t have them. I don’t know a single writer, even super successful award winning, academy, award movie making writers that don’t suffer from doubt. Really what you want to do is to get into action. I know that sounds simple, but it’s really the case that we have to build a plan and just proceed with it no matter what, just stick to the plan. It doesn’t have to be a lot every day, but there should be some every day. Just forward action helps with the doubts.

That’s what I have to say today. All right. Thanks everybody.

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