Self-doubt by Dennis Scheel

I can say with a wide certainty that 99% of writers have or have had some self-doubt in their writing at some point, some will have it worse than others. I, for example, have come a long way in the last few years. I had a girlfriend, who for ten years kept insisting that I had no talent in writing. She was so adamant about insisting it, that I believed it myself. So much even, that when I got the very first review on my first novel, (No way back: The Underworlds), I dreaded it being so bad, despite how much I spent on editor and proofreaders. I hoped it would be above two stars, it turned out to be five. Ironically it was one by Jeyran. That is my story in finding more confidence, I even got a finalist spot for my second one in a competition, something that helped too, yet I still, and always will have some self-doubt deep down my very core.

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