The Gremlin Within

A very smart lady once told me not to ever let the gremlin within get the best of me.
To this day, she still gives me words of encouragement and tries to make sure that I keep to my word of becoming a better writer.

At first I did not fully understand what the gremlin within was.
She explained it to me (in hindsight, I should have known), and pointed out that everyone has it.
It's that voice (for me it's a choir) that keeps telling you that you're not good enough, you can't possibly do this, there's no way you can make it a success and other disheartening statements that not only kick you when you're down, but drag you deeper into the abyss (if you don't keep it in check).

Self doubt is the worst form of self medication.
It treats nor solves nothing. Instead it makes a mountain out of a mole hill.

My gremlin is big one day and small the next. I don't think I would want to completely remove it, sometimes it keeps me grounded, but sometimes I need to be up in th sky.

Onto the point;
Each person has a gremlin, so does each character in your book.
Find that gremlin within. Acknowledge it and move ahead knowing that it's there.

Namaste