{"id":4624,"date":"2010-03-25T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2010-03-25T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T13:00:43","slug":"id-rather-be-underconfident-in-this-aspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2010\/03\/id-rather-be-underconfident-in-this-aspect\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;d rather be under confident in this aspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an agent, Nathan Bransford, that I follow on twitter.\u00a0 He sometimes has some interesting industry blogs&#8230;well, probably often, but I only click over there every now and then.\u00a0 This time when a post came up about a lack of confidence and writing?\u00a0 <em>That <\/em>one had my name written all over it, so I clicked through.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nathanbransford.com\/2010\/03\/do-you-lack-confidence-in-your-writing.html\">Do  You Lack Confidence in Your Writing? It Might Not Be a Bad Thing!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to say, to some extent, I agree.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting post, and some of the comments are interesting&#8230;some tend to get pretty&#8230;ah&#8230;well, I think some viewed the article on a very, very deep level.\u00a0 O_O<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s interesting.\u00a0 As with many interesting posts, I figured I might as well discuss my two cents here.\u00a0 ;o)<\/p>\n<p>In my normal, every day average life, I don&#8217;t lack for confidence.\u00a0 In some ways, I&#8217;m probably a little overconfident and my husband can attest that I have moments of utter arrogance.\u00a0 Some of it just came from my environment-I had three brothers, we grew up in an area of town where the quieter, milder people often became&#8230;<em>targets<\/em>.\u00a0 I never did care for the idea of being a target, and I was too mean to let my brothers run roughshod over me.\u00a0 The brothers alone made sure I&#8217;d know how to handle myself and the area of town just added to it.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I went into nursing.\u00a0 How much confidence are you going to put in the hands of a nurse who looks like she&#8217;d faint if you looked cross-eyed at her?\u00a0 Confidence, I do not lack.<\/p>\n<p>Unless it comes to my writing.\u00a0 When it comes to my writing, I tend to think my writing sucks.\u00a0 And here&#8217;s the kicker.\u00a0 I&#8217;m perfectly fine with this.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 Well, since in my everyday average life, I tend to veer toward confidence, maybe a tad <em>over<\/em>confidence&#8230;hmmm&#8230;how can I put this politely.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t.\u00a0 So I won&#8217;t bother.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve met some overconfident writers (sub in <em>egotistical <\/em>for<em> overconfident<\/em>) and one thing they are&#8230;is <em>annoying<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m annoying enough-I don&#8217;t need to add ego to my writing.\u00a0 Or at least any <em>more<\/em> ego into the mess.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather think my writing sucks, and be pleasantly surprised when people, my agent, my editors, my readers disagree, then run the risk of being on of those <em>over<\/em>confident people.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do a lot of them come with attitudes that can knock you off your feet at ten paces, some of them seem to have this&#8230;mindset that they are already <em>very good writers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;if they already <em>very good writers&#8230;<\/em>do they seek to improve?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s another thing.<\/p>\n<p>Even if they don&#8217;t knock me off my feet at ten paces with their ego, do they seek to improve?<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;m lazy.\u00a0 If I suddenly start thinking, <em>Hey, well, maybe I&#8217;m pretty good after all<\/em>, maybe I&#8217;ll stop trying to get better.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want that.\u00a0 I always want to improve.\u00a0 I always want to learn.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t lack for confidence, are you going to continually strive to improve?\u00a0 Well, there&#8217;s a good chance many people wouldn&#8217;t seek to improve.\u00a0 Many <em>would<\/em>, but many would <em>not<\/em>, because that&#8217;s human nature.\u00a0 Plenty of us always look for the easy way out and if we&#8217;re already convinced we rocking the writing world, why try to improve?<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s where it can affect the published writer.<\/p>\n<p>For the unpublished&#8230;if the writer is overconfident, I can see how this could often lead to some bitterness.\u00a0 If they are convinced their writing is the utterness of sublime, when they don&#8217;t accepted here, or the agent rejects them there, perhaps, instead of looking to see what needs to be changed, or improved, they are going to get bitter.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, we all need to improve.\u00a0 Because we&#8217;re all human.\u00a0 The perfect book has yet to be written.\u00a0 So if a writer is overconfident and they let that blind them to the areas they needed to improve, or they become bitter over things like rejections, then their overconfidence has become another hurdle. 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