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I liked that Jo. For people who feel stuck on apologising I can recommend Amanda Palmer's book The Art of Asking (which I'm about 3/4 of the way through now). I'm not saying she's got all the answers, but she's very honest about her artistic struggles and insecurities in a way that's quite inspiring.

Today I wrote a 300 word piece called Garden Karma, plus the last two days I've done a scifi and a bio-punk-y-type fantasy piece of the same length.

I finished my allotted 75 word posts, so now I'm up to 300. I'll probably finish out the month (ie. write 5 more next week) then think about if I want to jump to 600, 1000 or just write and stop counting. (Which was pretty tempting today when I had to cut it down from over 400 words...)
 
Lack of confidence and low self-esteem are often linked, and, in my experience, are the usual reasons authors apologise for their work. There's also this very British thing about not allowing others to notice you, it happens because of the legacy of the appalling class structure we had, and in some places still have, in Britain. If you stand out, you're knocked back. This is a cultural thing. It doesn't happen in some other countries.
But low self-esteem is a particularly corrosive affliction to suffer from. I suspect a lot of authors use their work as a proxy for themselves, which is a dangerous thing for an author to do. Alas, there is no easy answer once - in childhood - the emotional damage is done. Experience of life is the only answer.
 
Randall, I've got to admit I'm not usually a very tactile person or into engineering stuff, but make an exception for the mechanical calculator. It's a marvellous contraption.
 
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