Authors struggle most with their internal critic, the voice that questions whether they're good enough and whether anyone will care. Self-doubt leads to procrastination and unfinished manuscripts. External validation matters too, but the real block is the negative self-talk.
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What's the number one thing that you see authors struggling with as far as getting a book completed?
Biggest issue I face with my clients is the negative voice in the head. The voice that says, who do you think you are writing a book? Did anybody ever tell you you were a good writer? Did anybody ever ask you to write this book? Who wants to hear from you? That is the number one concern. Sometimes it shows up as procrastination, perpetual procrastination, like just not getting around to writing, or they're 80% or more done with the book and they can't quite get it done. And when we dive into it, they say, I'm just, I'm really kind of afraid, you know. But we have to kind of peel away the layers to find that out. But that's still probably number one. Accompanying with that is just sort of validation that they're on the right path, they know what they're doing, they're not going to make a fool of themselves, they're gonna say it in a way that is credible. And that's, I think, the number one