autobiographical advice from a writer.

{how to steal like an artist}

"You’re ready. Start making stuff.

You might be scared. That’s natural.

There’s this very real thing that runs rampant in educated people. It’s called imposter syndrome. 

The clinical definition is a “psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their

 accomplishments.” It means that you feel like a phony, like you’re just winging it, 

that you really don’t have any idea what you’re doing.

Guess what?

None of us do. I had no idea what I was doing when I started blacking out newspaper columns. 

All I knew was that it felt good. It didn’t feel like work. It felt like play."

I like how Austin put this...that if we wait to figure out everything before we do anything, then we'll never do anything.
It's so easy to want everything figured out first, before we jump.
But if we never make any kind of step out into anything then we'll never make it to the good things, the things that are worth it.