How To Stop Feeling You’re Not Good Enough To Write Fiction
A crappy poem and some things I tell myself to start writing.
what is inside of me? / I don’t know. / I ask myself this question every then and now. / trying, pushing, sweating, swearing. / when all we need is to see. / it’s already there. / staring at you. / like the sky. / which you never see. / because you’re not actually looking. / this was a crappy poem by me
Perhaps talking directly, as in blog posts, is not the best way. Perhaps, instead of telling, one should show.
And not in one’s own life. No. One’s life is never that interesting as to become a painting to which you point.
Some people are interesting. But it’s probably not you or me.
And even then, there’s usually just one or two things to show — and that’s it. Then you run out of material.
How do you never run out of material? Two ways.
First: stop writing about yourself.
Write non-fiction that describes the external world rather than the self. Or don’t write non-fiction at all; write fiction instead. It takes an excellent wordsmith to describe one’s life (e.g., in a memoir) so that it’s interesting enough to read.
