#195: Holly Ringland — The Pain of Not Writing, Breaking Through Decades of Self-Doubt, Meeting the Inner Critic with the Inner Fan, and Building a Toolkit for the Creative Life
About this episode
Holly Ringland discusses overcoming self-doubt in writing and building a toolkit for creativity.
Bestselling novelist Holly Ringland on writing from joy instead of fear, the toolkit she built to meet the inner critic with self-compassion, and finding the first true sentence of her debut after decades of silence.
People in this episode
Hosts: Parul Bavishi, Matthew Trinetti
Guest: Holly Ringland
Topics covered
- writing
- self-doubt
- creativity
- inner critic
- self-compassion
- toolkit
Keywords
- writing
- self-doubt
- inner critic
- creativity
- self-compassion
- toolkit
- novelist
More episodes of London Writers' Salon
- #196: Missouri Williams — Writing Strange and Ambitious Fiction, Doubt as a Generative Force, and Why Idleness Is Essential to Creativity
- #194: Finding Peak Writing Flow & Focus — Dr Gloria Mark, Oliver Burkeman & Charlie Hoehn on Designing Your Day Around Peak Attention, Embracing Imperfection, and the Power of Play (Compilation)
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