Been so busy with my MA reading list that I forgot to post a link to my latest rambling over at Write Anything. This month’s theme was the dark side of writing and I chose to focus on that most dangerous of forces, the inner critic; the little voice in your head that so often tries to tell you that what you are writing isn’t worth pursuing, even before you’ve completed a first draft. Luckily. I’ve been reading Chekhov’s letters recently and the greatest of short story writers talks a great deal about how to fend off the devilish inner critic.
Read more about this in my post ‘Defeating Your Inner Critic the Chekhov Way‘ over at Write Anything.
Dan Powell 
2 Responses to A little advice from Chekhov
Could use this sort of advice at the moment. All the MA reading and I’ve got a serious fit of the inadequacies.
That’s the problem with reading really good work, while it’s inspiring, it also highlights the quality gap between our efforts and it. The only way to cross it is to keep writing, and take some solace from the fact that even the greats, like Chekhov shows in his letters, had doubts about their own work.
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