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Nov 21, 2006 at 3:14pm
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Re: Re: Re: Self Doubt
Stephen King thought "Carrie" was junk and threw it in the trash. Tabitha, Stephen's wife, fished the manuscript out of the trash and convined him to submit it to a publisher. The rest, as they say, is history. Uniqazdacome offers some great advice. Ignore the ghost in your head and focus on telling a story. Easier said than done, but it can be done. Nearly 175,000 manuscripts were sold last year in the US alone, many of them by first time authors. I'll wager 98%+ of those authors felt self-doubt at one time of another. They managed to overcome it. You can, too.

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