During an interview with the Creative Penn podcast, William Kenower offers his advice on how we can recognize self-doubt, write with confidence, and double down on what we love the most.
“You have to be in a constant trusting state to allow the ideas to come. Because if you knew the whole thing, you wouldn’t write it. You’re writing to discover,” Kenower says. “As long as you are holding doubt that the next idea will come, it’s like you’re holding the door to where ideas come from closed.”
For Kenower, the question is not whether you will feel self-doubt, but how long you will sit with it. “It’s never going to go away, but you don’t have to wallow in it,” he says. “You don’t have to indulge the thought. You don’t have to answer the question, ‘What if no one likes it?’ You can’t answer it for one thing and you don’t even have to address it.”
