Knowing you are good enough

How do you know you are good enough? Good enough to land a good gig, write a good article, get a contract?

I'm sure this is something many freelance writers battle with constantly. And especially when you are just starting out.

Knowing you are good enough isn't easy and I'm not the one to tell you how to get over it but I do know one thing: It's all connected to your self esteem. If you constantly think you will fail and if you never bid on the projects you want because you think you aren't good enough then you will never win.

I saw a very good project and I am telling myself to send in my samples. But who's to say I'll get it? And then, who's to say I won't? Someone has to get it, why not me?

Well I'm not sure I will get it but then again I cannot sit around and think that I won't get it because surely then I never will. And rejection is something you have to learn to live with when you are in the writing field.

So how do you know you are good enough?

Stressed

If there is something I have a problem with it's writing when I'm stressed.

I simply cannot concentrate when I have other things I ¨have¨to do.
It will always be there in the back of my mind and bugging me. If I have things to do at home I can't write until I have done them and when I have done them it's usually too late to write.

I can't write to music nor can I write when I'm stressed. But I do think that the stress thing is common so I'm not to worried.
The only thing I am worried about is not doing my other things in time so that I have time to write what I want.
That is a worry!

Keep up your inspiration

Something happened before I ever had a chance to start writing this post it got published. So I figure the title most be totally wrong in the link. just FYI. :)

Yesterday I was on the bus and I started thinking, I wrote two great articles in my mind. Or at least I figured out how I would write them. I couldn´t wait to get off the bus and into my house so that I could write them.

And then something happened and I just lost the inspiration to write.

So I wonder; how do you keep your inspiration when you lose it?

Well if you have a good memory you can always rely on remebering it for another day. If you don't , like me, then you write it down on a piece of paper.

Well I have a lousy memory but I am relying on it to remember these articles and write them on another day when I feel inspired.

I have still to think about this, how to keep the inspiration...

Writing to music?

I like to work and listen to music at the same time but usually it only distracts me. So if I have to turn it off if I have somthing important to write.

The same thing with the dog. I have two dogs, well at the moment I have 7, 5 puppies. If they start barking I can't concentrate either.
It also depends what kind of music it is I'm listening to. if I lsiten to some up bet music then I get energetic and want to write more but then again, it won't work if it's soemthing improtant.

I've tried so many tiem to listen to music at the same time but it just won't work.
Sad... is that what they say not multi-skilled. i am multi-skilled acvtually, ust not in this matter :)

Can you write to music?