How to Cope with Writer’s Self Doubt

I would start writing, then say, “This is no good at all.”

Sound familiar? In an interview in April’s The Writer,playwright Christopher Durangexplains how he coped with those nagging feelings that all writers get:

After my mother passed way, I got a commission from the Phoenix Theatre… At the time, I said I was going to write a play in which everyone in the world was in therapy with the same therapist. I thought it was funny, but when I started to write it, I couldn’t make it work. I would star...