Impostor Syndrome is the phenomenon by which otherwise successful or high-achieving individuals have trouble internalizing accomplishments, often resulting in a fear that they will be exposed as a fraud, despite all external evidence of their competence. Examples of writers suffering from Impostor Syndrome include authors with a successful first story who then can't seem to finish a second for fear of not living up to their original success, or a writer who has a track record of consistently turning out well-received, quality stories who still convinced themselves that every new piece of writing isn't any good.

Procrastination is the avoidance of doing something that needs to be done, and is probably the most familiar to us as writers. Writing is hard work. Coming up with compelling characters and figuring out the narratives those characters are caught up in requires an enormous amount of thinking, contemplation, and tough decision-making. On days where the words aren't coming easily, it can be incredibly tempting to come up with something else - anything else - to do other than sitting in that chair and putting words on that page or screen.

Writer's Block is the inability to produce new work or think creatively. Brought on for a variety of reasons, when writer's block strikes it can completely cripple a writer's creative output because the words and ideas just aren't flowing... and without those creative options, there's nothing to write.

Over-sensitivity is a serious problem for anyone who puts their heart and soul into their work. Not every audience member or potential audience member is going to see the hard work a writer puts into those words on the page. Not everyone is going to likes the ideas or execution the writer presents. And not everyone is going to be particularly considerate of a writer's feelings when expressing how they feel about a story or a character, or separating your work from you personally as a writer.