Maybe Your Writing Isn’t Good Enough
How “Positive” Affirmation Hurts Querying Writers
4 min readJun 15, 2022
Querying is a humbling process. Understandably, querying writers look for ways to process rejection, which exacts a psychological and emotional toll, but some writers don’t just cope, they rationalize. These writers need to face the possibility their writing just isn’t good enough.