Imposter syndrome

As many of my loyal readers know by now, I am writing a book and it will be published on June 9th. This means that I have a month to get my shit together, get over my imposter syndrome issues, and put my work out there for people to see...in book form.

For a while now, I have been struggling with the line "writers write books, not me". Now, that is obviously problematic for many reasons but I can't seem to get out of my own head about it. I mean... who is really stopping anyone from writing a book?

I guess that's where I am stuck. I know anyone realistically could write a book if they wanted to. Yes, it's hard work, but everyone could. So what makes me special? Do I really have something that no one has? Do I have something to say? And then again... if you think about it... everyone has something to say. Everyone is capable to write their own book simply using their own experiences because we are all so inherently different and go through something SO different on a day-to-day basis.

Last week, I had a thought that maybe it would be better if I pushed the release date because I did not feel like I was ready to do this. Although my content is pretty much covered and the book is in its editing stages, I wanted to back out. It wasn't because I thought my content wasn't good. I guess I thought I, myself, I just wasn't good enough to be doing it.

I'm over it now but it took a lot of pep talks from a lot of my close friends and it took knowing that people are counting on me to do this. I have a group of people editing my book and they're doing it for free because they want me to succeed and that's enough for me to push myself to do it in the end.

Ugh.. if any of you amazing people are reading this right now, just know I really fricken appreciate you and you are the reason I am getting over my own fears and feelings of inferiority.