7 Reasons You Think You’re a Bad Writer…Spoiler: You’re Not.

Today's false belief that you may have is I am a bad writer.

This is an objection I love to challenge.

Because I too once thought that I was a bad writer.

And maybe I was.

And who really is in charge of determining what's good and what's bad and what it actually takes to become a good writer? I'm putting everything in quotes if you can't see me.

There are many, many, many underlying reasons.

why a person thinks they might be a bad writer.

And then they use that story that they're a bad writer, which is typically based on outside feedback, not necessarily for the writing that you're doing, but for other ways that these beliefs are instilled, which we'll get into.

But it's believing that story and then it becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? It actually becomes the reality of because it inhibits you from continuing to write.

So when I first wrote my first book, I thought I was a bad writer when I realized underneath the surface there were many other things going on that led me to believe that, right? And There's a lot of romanticizing around what a good writer looks like.

Like we see the movies and we see the TV shows of someone getting a book deal and they're like, hair is messy and they're writing through the night and in a cabin and they get all this, you know, these book deals and all these external validations to then show that this is a good writer.

right? And that's not really how this works.

Not all the time.

The process that we take a lot of the time is going to look different for all of us.

That's a big thing.

But to even get started, there has to be a belief that that you can do this.

And if you don't have that belief, you're not gonna get better.

You're not even gonna start.

How do we get good at anything? We gotta practice, right? There's so much more I'm gonna get into here.

But if you are interested in writing a book, please stick around because I'm gonna bust every myth, every objection that you have that is keeping you from writing this damn book.

So I'm gonna go over seven big reasons top reasons that you think you're a bad writer.

I'm here to flip that switch for you so that you realize you're not bad.

There are just many layers that taught you that you could never be good.