How do you Know If You Are A Good Writer?

When I finished writing Devoured and went back to read it, I discovered that it was actually a good book. You probably think I am just blowing my own horn here, but really I am not.

With it being by debut novel, I had no idea when I was writing it if it would be any good or not. In fact, I often teetered between hope and despair on a daily basis. At times I thought it was truly great and at other times I thought it was truly terrible. I guess the truth lies somewhere in between those two things, but when I actually took the time to read the book, just as novel, I truly liked it. It was exactly what I wanted to read.