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While you sit in your favourite spot and let your imagination transport through words onto paper, you’re doing what you love. As a writer, your work is your writing. You’re in a fortunate place – being in a profession where you enjoy what you’re doing. However, it is still work and is only one facet of life. If you don’t take care of your health and wellbeing, then your writing could result in you burning out. There are fortunately, plenty of great articles you can read, whether it’s to get dose of motivation, or some advice on increasing your self-confidence. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of 60 top self-help articles especially to help writers in four main areas: rejection, confidence, self-esteem, motivation.
Rejection
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Rejection for writers is a big one. In fact, there’s probably not one writer in the world who hasn’t had his or her manuscript rejected by an editor and/or a publisher. Or a terribly negative review, perhaps? You know the feeling. It can be demoralising. However, learning to deal with rejection is one of the best things you can do, as it will help you to continue writing until you get published either through self-publishing, getting a deal with a publishing house, or having your article accepted in a major magazine. The following articles are for you if your work has recently been strongly turned back, or if you’re looking for tips to help handle a possible rejection in the future. Some of the stories about famous authors who were rejected multiple times earlier in their career, but who never quit are particularly inspirational:
1. Rejection Tool Kit For Writers: Your Secret Weapon Against Rejection!
2. Best-Sellers Initially Rejected – Literary Rejections
3. 25 Things Writers Should Know About Rejection
4. 10 Tips for Dealing With Rejection as a Writer
5. How to Deal With Writing Rejections
6. Rejection: 3 Methods for Coping
7. The rejection letters: how publishers snubbed 11 great authors
8. How to Handle Rejection: Don’t Give Up!
9. On Writing, Rejection, and Persistence
10. 50 Iconic Writers Who Were Repeatedly Rejected
12. 4 Tips to Avoid Having Your Story Rejected
13. How Writers Can Stop Being Crushed by Fear of Rejection
14. How to Handle Rejection in Writing
15. Dealing with Rejection – How to Pick Yourself Up and Keep Writing by Rachel Thomas
16. “Never Give Up” – Or How One Writer Got Published in Poetry Magazine After 12 Rejections
17. 5 Hilarious Reasons Publishers Rejected Classic Best-Sellers
18. 5 Ways To Deal With Rejection As A Writer
19. The Truth About Publishing
20. How To Publish Your Article And Avoid Rejection
Confidence
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As an writer, you may have times when you’re feeling unconfident about yourself and your work. Without confidence your progress will be seriously hampered as self-doubt will raise its ugly head. In the worst case, a lack of confidence will stop you from actually writing a book, short story, article or report. It could even prevent you from completing a works midway through, or result in a scenario where you have a completed manuscript that ends up gathering dust. The articles below will help you with self-confidence and give tips on how you can get it:
21. 10 Ways To Build Self-Confidence
23. 63 Ways to Build Self-Confidence
24. 5 Powerful Ways to Boost Your Confidence
25. Where Does Self-Confidence Come From?
26. A Thoughtful Guide to Gaining Self-Confidence
27. 25 Killer Actions to Boost Your Self-Confidence
28. Why Confidence Is So Important (and How to Improve Yours)
29. How to build self-confidence
30. How To Be The Most Confident Person In The World
31. Build Self Confidence: 7 Keys to a Positive Personality
32. 10 Ways to Instantly Build Self Confidence
33. The Seven Rules of Confidence
34. 8 Ways to Be More Confident: Live the Life of Your Dreams
35. What No One Tells You About Confidence (plus 6 ways to boost yours)
Self-Esteem
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Whereas confidence is concerned with your ability to take action, self-esteem is all about how you view your own worth as a person and a human being. Do you feel worthy to be happy? Do you feel deserving to be a successful writer, or to work with a particular agent? Or get your work featured in an esteemed newspaper? Your self-worth comes from within you, first and foremost. Whether your self-esteem is high or low will depend on how much love you have towards yourself, no matter what happens in the outside world and what others’ opinions might be of you. If you’re having problems with self-love then the following posts are for you:
36. 9 Powerful Strategies To Boost Your Self-Esteem Right Now!
37. 7 Ways To Boost Your Self Esteem Quickly
38. The Business of Self-Esteem
39. How to Raise Your Self Esteem
40. Positive Ways to Cultivate Self Love for Limitless Happiness ~ Happy Valentine’s Month!
41. 6 Tips to Improve Your Self-Esteem
42. Boost Your Self-Esteem: 10 Ways To Feel Good About Yourself Right Now
43. The Secret to (High) Self-Esteem
45. 25 Things To Remember When Low Self-Esteem Kicks Your Butt
46. 6 Simple Personal Commitments to Overcome Low Self-Esteem
47. 7 Signs Of Low Self Esteem And How To Overcome It
48. 10 ways to overcome low self-esteem
Motivation
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The truth is that without you, nothing will happen. If you don’t look for freelance writing work, it won’t end up on your lap. If you don’t write, no stories and books would get complete. If your stories are not written, there’s no chance of getting your books published, and even less likelihood of readers ever buying and reading them. In order to write, you need a regular dose of motivation. And at times it can be difficult to get motivated to turn on your laptop and start typing. This could be for any host of reasons, ranging from tiredness to being unsure of the path you’re taking; namely that of a writer. In such instances, the following articles will help you to get back into action:
49. Motivation Tips that Actually Work: 6 Sure-Fire Ways To Get Writing and Keep Writing
50. Make Time to Write: 10 Tips for Daily Writing
51. How to Find Your Daily Writing Motivation
52. 7 Simple Ways to Get From Exhausted to Energized
53. How to Motivate Yourself as Writer
54. 17 Ways To Motivate Yourself To Do Great Things
55. 8 Steps To Continuous Self-Motivation
56. 25 Motivational Jim Rohn Quotes
57. How To Motivate Yourself – Self Motivation
58. Top 10 Sources of Inspiration for Creative Writing
59. 6 Tips for Staying Motivated to Write From Successful Writers
60. 20 Great Writers on Motivating Yourself To Write, No Matter What
To end, remember, as a writer you’re a still a human and will go through all the ups and downs that life and work as a writer brings. However, as is evident from the 60 articles listed in this post, you’re never alone. There’s always help out there.
[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://writingtipsoasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/hv1.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Hiten Vyas is the Founder and Managing Editor of eBooks India. He is also a prolific eBook writer with over 25 titles to his name.[/author_info] [/author]