Feeling inadequate? Like you’re a fake? A person only pretending to be a writer who’s about to be found out?
Take heart, bunky. Not only are you not alone in your misery, you don’t even have to suffer this way at all.
by Nathan Bransford
Writing a novel is a challenging process and positive reinforcement is gaspingly hard to come by. Accordingly, it is hard to avoid imposter syndrome: the feeling that you are a fraud and that your lack of skills will be “discovered” at any moment.