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I'm Having a Panic Attack! 4/4/2008 2:55:15 PM
I'm going to be on national television in three days and I'm asking myself the question - How did this happen? In three short months I have gone from being a writer to being a published author. I feel like such a fraud! How can I claim to be a writer? Or an author for that matter? I have no training in the sphere of writing. My grammar, to put it bluntly - sucks! Yet, I suddenly find myself in a world that I feel I have no right to be in because I have only been writing for about five years.
I did not "pay my dues" either, as many writer friends(?) are quick to point out to me. I am of all things a dreaded self-published author! *gasp* I have not payed the piper and now I'm about to be found out that I'm a fraud on national television!
I went to a writer's conference on the weekend and the speaker kept telling us to repeat this mantra, "I am a writer!" Is that how it works? Keep repeating things to yourself until you believe them? In my soul I'm still a singer. I don't know how to be anything else! I never had to tell myself I was a singer - I knew I was! Why is this so different? Is it because everything changed so suddenly? I feel like I have just put on a new outfit that is too tight and uncomfortable. Everything is happening too fast. I'm not sure I'm up to this.
