Posts

Showing posts from July, 2025

How to avoid feeling second best by encouraging others in their journey by Elaine Langford

Image
It's easy to feel second best as a writer. Especially when you see so many others report on their successes while you can barely string a few words together. Though I guess this feeling is often relative. I suspect even those who have some success will look at those with multiple novels or daily social media posts and yearn to be more prolific and popular. I’ve already noted my current but constant struggle with writing and often wonder if I should pack up my writerly ambitions and avoid doing something else with my time instead. However, I still feel called to be a writer. Although I also feel I’m still missing the path that God is calling down and where I should focus my output. For now, this blog is my only home. The most frustrating thing is that throughout each month I have loads of ideas about topics to write about. Yet they never get beyond the doom pile of lists onto my poetry or faith blog. Although not working, life still seems to have taken my energy and brain capaci...