Don’t listen to that inner critic!

You suck! So says the inner critic. – credit: Ambro

Everyone has it. That little voice inside them that tells them that they’re no good. That they better not even try at all because their efforts will be fruitless. When I interviewed Margaret Stohl a few months ago, she told me how she once went on a writing tour with many “wise writers”. She asked them, “At what point did you stop saying that you’re a bad writer?”

They responded: “We’ll tell you when that happens.”

“Everyone I know feels the...