Every successful person has experienced self-doubt at some point after being criticized by others.
Even Stephen King.
After a high school teacher told him he was wasting his time with writing, he went into a funk and felt like quitting.
He said the following in his excellent book, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”:
“I have spent a good many years … being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction and poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talents. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose) someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all. I’m not editorializing, just trying to give you the facts as I see them …”
King bounced back and has gone on to write over 80 books and become one of the most prolific fiction writers of our time … not bad!
While King has a talent for writing, he’s also written a lot about his struggles with writer’s block, including a famous one while writing “The Stand” (1978) and got stuck after the 500 page mark.
He was able to push past it, but it might have been easier if he had a tool like Heyday to help him out.
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