What's on my mind today is self-doubt. You know that monster that feeds on worry and fear and treats your negative feelings as pure delicacy. Yesterday I finished a first draft of my work-in-progress. For the first hour or so afterwards I felt kind of high on the delight of actually finding my way from the beginning to the end of the story. Then doubt hit. And I started to wonder if the whole idea was ridiculous. If it was too this or too that or not enough of one thing or another. I started comparing it to other books on the market and picking out all the ways it didn't stand up. By this morning I was a mess of sadness and worry and fatigue. And then I took a deep breath and read through the entire manuscript. And it didn't suck. And it hung together. And there's work ahead. But it's doable. So today's list is what to tell yourself when self-doubt is nipping at your heels, or swallowing you whole.