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For your work even though you have experience and success already behind you. Why does this happen? Perhaps it’s because you may fail to see yourself as a real writer, so why should you expect to get paid like one. Intentionally miss deadlines Feeling inadequate, you may delay working on your writing project and, in turn, intentionally miss the deadline. When this happens, you not only damage the client relationship but also your credibility and potential for more work from that client. Incompletion Excitement may build around a new topic you want to propose to your client or write under your own byline.
Yet, that Impostor Syndrome can sabotage that excitement and enthusiasm, and the great idea ends up going nowhere. You may do the initial research, draft an outline, then fail Bahrain WhatsApp Number to start writing it. Even if you do start on it, you stop before it’s completed. Incompletion happens because, every time you begin writing, that negative voice whispers and then shouts. The voice tells you that the idea isn’t interesting, that no one will read it, or you are the last person who should be writing it. You may suddenly think that no one wants to read what you have to write.

Play it too safe You may have dozens of ideas, but with Impostor Syndrome dominating, you choose to play it safe and not present those big ideas to clients or pitch them to publications. It’s better, you believe, to stick with tried-and-true topics and not venture into an area that may fail. You may think you don’t have enough experience or knowledge to go forward with an idea, so instead, you back down and relegate yourself to the same-old things. Avoid marketing/promoting yourself Feeling insecure in your writing abilities can cause you to avoid promoting yourself and seeking new clients or freelance work.
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