The Stories Writers Tell Themselves
Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min · 7 segments
**Episode 6 - Everyone else is doing better than me** Writers spend a lot of time making up stories and not all of them end up in our books. *The Stories Writers Tell Themselves* is a free limited…
Katherine ColletteHostIt's someone you know, someone you started writing around the same time as, whose career once looked roughly like yours, and suddenly something happens for them, and you are pleased for them.
Publishing gives you an extraordinary amount of information about other people's careers.
You see announcements and reviews and festival invitations and books in shop windows, and social media has made it possible to receive all of this information while you are sitting at home trying to fix the opening chapters of your book again, which can be a difficult contrast.
It's someone you know, someone you started writing around the same time as, whose career once looked roughly like yours, and suddenly something happens for them, and you are pleased for them.
Publishing gives you an extraordinary amount of information about other people's careers.
You see announcements and reviews and festival invitations and books in shop windows, and social media has made it possible to receive all of this information while you are sitting at home trying to fix the opening chapters of your book again, which can be a difficult contrast.
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