Imposter Fuel: The Voice in Our Heads

I’ve realized that I can’t promise these updates every month or as timely as I’d wish them to be, but if you’d like to follow along; you won’t be disappointed. At the very least, maybe a few of you will come along this journey with me.

I am not the only person who has dealt with (and continues to deal with) that little voice in the back of my head who says “you’re not good enough.”

A friend told me I should journal more often, and I was worried I wouldn’t have anything worth saying, or I wouldn’t know what to say or to whom. Then, I thought about the scared, neurortic, confused middle schooler and what I could’ve told him. Not the things to warn him, but to tell him everything would be alright. Then, I thought about the very same middle schooler-now aspiring author in 2017 and what I would’ve told him.

Not what publishers to search out, or who to network with, or any sort of business minutia whatsoever. I thought about the tropes of the closet, being a queer person, and how the prison of self and society can act as man-made shackles and I realized what I would’ve shouted to that neurotic-self starting author: you matter. Your work matters.

The basic definition of imposter syndrome is when an individual doubts their own skills and successes. I want to talk more about what that means to me and to others here. How we overcome it, and what we do as writers to make every word count because at the end of the day regardless of where we are in our careers or where we intend to go; every word matters as it represents the most important part of ourselves.

Of course, I’ll talk about my work here, what I am working on, books, other projects, and all of those fun things.

Until next time!

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