This post by Andrew E. Kaufman originally appeared on The Crime Fiction Collective blog on 4/16/14.
I’m reaching a point in my current manuscript where I feel as though I’m starting to get a handle on things.
Well, that’s a relative term.
One never truly has a handle on things when one suffers from what is known as Not Good Enough Syndrome. You may have heard of this affliction. It’s non-specific, widely undocumented, and for the most part, difficult to diagnose.
Symptoms may include:
• Self doubt
• Self-loathing
• Second-guessing everything.
• Not liking anything.
• Lack of inspiration, ideas, or sanity.
• Isolated episodes of global panic (with intermittent aspirations of world-building).
• Private, self-contained tantrums, which can range in severity.
And there are subcategories, and of course, I have a few of those as well. Currently I’m in the throes of, There Aren’t Enough Damned Twists in this Book! (Yes! There is an actual exclamation point at the end! A demarcation of severity!)
Click here to read the full post on The Crime Fiction Collective blog.