If you think you're a terrible writer…

it may be a sign that you're not.

I was discussing this with Mirien the other day, both of us observing that we'd known some really poor writers who were convinced they were geniuses, and some really wonderful writers who needed to be encouraged every step of the way, and were always on the verge of giving up, because they thought they were rubbish.

Nathan Bransford is discussing this phenomenon on his blog today: You tell me – why is it so hard to tell if our writing is good?  And one of the c...