Yes, I’m multi-published author. I worked hard to attain this dream and I love sharing my stories with others. Readers often email to let me know how much they enjoy my books. As wonderful as I feel when I hear from fans, I still catch myself in the ugly trap of comparing myself to others. I’m not as good as this writer, or as successful as that one.<\/p>\n
This is not good for my self-confidence or my happiness, and certainly does nothing to improve my writing.<\/p>\n
Which is why I like this sage advice:<\/p>\n
This makes perfect sense. Because, let’s face it, the only writing skills and output that I can control is my own, and the only person I can control is myself. The same goes for you.<\/p>\n Of course, I can learn a great deal by reading a particular author and noting how s\/he crafted their masterpiece. I can learn new ways of promoting myself from others’ successes. I’d be crazy not to do these things.<\/p>\n But ultimately, my party is inside of me. Just as yours is inside you.<\/p>\n Food for thought…<\/p>\n Until next time,<\/p>\n Ann<\/strong><\/em> If you constantly compare yourself to others, you’re at the wrong party. Truth: Your party is strictly about you, and begins and ends with you. I know this, and yet time and again, I catch myself chasing after someone else’s success and happiness, and wishing it was mine. Yes, I’m multi-published author. I worked hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,14],"tags":[4,404,400,409,405,408,406,44,403,407,231,40],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivational-monday","category-musings","tag-ann-roth","tag-compare","tag-enjoy","tag-fans","tag-happiness","tag-masterpiece","tag-mearsure","tag-novel","tag-output","tag-promoting","tag-success","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"onlywriter\"](\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/onlywriter.jpg\")
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