It’s not as if we set out to compare ourselves to other writers; however, it’s inevitable that it’ll happen. One acquaintance gets a huge book deal, but you’re still self-publishing. Another gets reviewed in the New York Times, but you can’t even get a review from anyone other than your mother on Amazon. Sucks to be you, or does it? The Procrastiwriter’s Shanan has four solid reasons why you should stop comparing yourself to others.
Perhaps an author your age just got a three-book deal with a pretty big house, and you’re not there yet. Perhaps a blogger you thought was greener than poison ivy in springtime just won an award and you didn’t. Perhaps you simply admire the style of another writer’s prose, they way they casually string their ideas together like power lines through the desert. It’s all just effortless, and your work isn’t effortless. Then what?
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