Shenebonyrose

How do you overcome embarassment while writing? I often end up deleting passages of my WIP or not writing at all because I feel so embarassed about what I'm writing.

Overcoming Embarrassment Over Own Writing

If you decided to take piano lessons having never played the piano before in your life, would you be embarrassed just because you couldn’t play a concert hall worthy concerto after a few days, weeks, or months? No, of course you wouldn’t, and you shouldn’t feel that way about writing, either.

Newer writers especially (and by “newer” I mean you don’t have loads of completed, revised, and polished works under your belt) feel entitled to writing award-winning prose without having put in the time and effort to build up to that point. Good writers are writers who understood that their early attempts weren’t going to be amazing, who didn’t feel entitled to being instantly amazing, and who wrote despite that fact. You have to learn to finish what you write. You have to learn to revise and polish what you write. Otherwise you’ll never get better. :)