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Battling Your Inner Critic or Making Friends with It--What Keeps You Writing the Most?

Battling Your Inner Critic or Making Friends with It--What Keeps You Writing the Most?

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Mary Carroll Moore
Jun 08, 2018
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Everyone faces the Inner Critic, no matter how experienced they are.  Professional writers, even those who have published widely and won awards, might give it names.  Sue Grafton calls hers "the ego," the part that's always concerned with "how are we doing?"  I think of mine as an elderly, worried aunt, trying to keep me safe. Some Inner Critics are fun…

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