Why Do I Even Try?

Entry in a writing contest for another writing site!

 

Can anyone tell me why I enter these, what is the reason?

 

I set myself up for disappointment I guess,

 

But it is the season

 

Of anti-confidence, oh yes!

 

 

The comments hit my confidence like an electric shock,

 

A jolted puppet dancing a no-talent jig

 

I once thought I could win this, can I chalk

 

Up my losage to writing small, but thinking big?

 

 

I NEVER win, but why?

 

Maybe it has something to do with suckage;

 

No talent leads me to fry

 

Upon the burning funeral pyre of the written page

 

 

I pump myself up, say, "I'm going to win!"

 

Then the bleak reality of comments hits hard

 

Once I read one, my confidence dims

 

Why does it leave my writing soul blackened and charred?

 

 

Everything from questioning my sanity, which is fair game, I suppose?,

 

To questions of my lineage, one is my mother wears combat boots,

 

Which, while true, has absolutely no

 

Place in comments; my writing plant is ripped out by the roots!

Reviews

[Marie]

I don't win contests, either, though I continue to enter them. I haven't a contest mentality. I get encouraging comments, but that doesn't mean anything to me. Comments shouldn't mean that much to you either. You know you can write.

[Michael Stevens]

Thank you Marie; I don't let a negative review bother me as much as I used to. Although nobody enjoys a bad review, I've gotten to the point I only write to please myself. I just exaggerated that WONDERFUL feeling!