Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was garbage & she said “Lol so writing like art has garbage stages” & I thought “But my diss isn’t, like, WRITING writing.” Pretty silly way to think of my 50000-word creative work.
@kimberlyhirsh Yes! But I always go through a phase of imposter syndrome where it's hard to notice that "identity" and "voice" coming through the writing, even when it's academic papers. Helpful to think of all writing, academic or not, as an artful practice. It is! But it's so easy to forget that.