When you want a “Feel Good Pep Talk;” when you NEED a Feel Good Pep Talk, look back at where you were, and where you are, now. Mark your own progress–it’s good enough, and good enough to go at your own rate of speed.
Neither compare yourself. Not to any writer or anybody: your competition is your “last self.” “Last Iteration of Identity,” I put it in Poetry.
I took that girl’s last dollar (A Loonie, Canadian Dollar) for a few poems of mine!!! She was a student at a Christian College, too!
David Fekete 