Have you come across the idea of an “inner critic” before?
For writers, the inner critic is that little voice inside your head that criticises your writing.
That could be on a big picture scale, with your inner critic telling you things like you’re not good enough or you’ll never make it as a writer.
Your inner critic can also show
up in a much more nitpicky way, nudging you as you’re drafting to say that sentence is clunky or would your character really do that?
A number of years ago, I wrote about working with your inner critic … but I now think that an even better way to approach this is to think about how you might transform your inner critic.
I think we all have some kind of inner critic. Some writers struggle with this more than others, but we’ve all had the experience of judging our own work harshly, or talking to ourselves far more unkindly than we’d talk to
a writing friend.
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