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Fighting Imposter Syndrome as a Writer
The voice in my brain tells me I’m not really a very good writer. I know that this voice is full of crap, but it took a long time to get here.
In 2016, I wrote a blog post that went viral and got a lot of attention, including attention from a literary agent who encouraged me to turn my blog post into a book proposal. I did not write another blog post until February 2017 because I was so paralyzed by the fear that my successful post was a fluke, an accident, a mistake.
I spent 2017 working on various versions of the proposal and we pitched it to 15 publishers in early 2018. All 15 wanted the proposal — which meant my idea was compelling and people wanted to know more. I accepted an offer to publish from an independent publishing house near Miami, FL and spent 2018 alternating between confidently expressing my ideas in the written word…and freaking out that I should definitely not be writing a book.
Who let me write a book? I’m just a blogger!
I felt out of place writing a real life book, when up until that point I had been “just a blogger.” But I had also made the leap into full time marketing after being “just a freelancer” and now I’m a content manager.
There is no “just” about my work.
