Excerpt from Recent Interview!

Interviewer: How long did it take to become confident in your writing?

Megan Falley: Oh goodness. I don’t think, at least for me, that self-confidence in writing is a constant thing. There are weeks where I feel great about the work I am putting forth, and weeks I think that I am a sham who just had decent luck with former poems and I’ll never write a good one again. Self-doubt can be crippling, but it can also keep me grounded. I know that not everything I write is amazing—if I thought that, I wouldn’t struggle, wouldn’t push, wouldn’t stretch myself to be better than the last time. I wouldn’t edit. I don’t ever want to be 100% confident in my writing. When I am, I think I’ll start writing real, consistent crap. I don’t want to be 100% self-depricating either, because that is the antithesis of creativity. I just want to acknowledge that sometimes I hit the mark, and sometimes I don’t. It’s not about always hitting the mark, it is about always shooting. About not being afraid of your own arrow.