Writing is a Nightmarish Hellscape
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When it comes to writing, I have performance anxiety. I know this seems strange; after all, I’ve been writing for decades, and by all measure I should feel a bit of swagger every time I sit down to start a piece. Practice makes perfect and all that, right? But each time it’s a bit of a challenge to convince myself that I’m going to pull it off. In a strange way, I think having done well so far has added to the pressure, because I feel like I’m forever waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting to be exposed as an imposter who doesn’t know how to write.
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