31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers—Day 18: Nix the Negativity.

Day 18 — Nix the Negativity.

Are you in a negativity rut?

It’s easy enough to fall into, especially after a series of rejections for your writing.

Get enough of them and you start believing that the odds are against your ever achieving anything with your writing—either because you doubt your own ability or because you believe that the writing world is prejudiced against you.

You believe it and you say it until it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because you stop trying.

I once knew a writer wh...