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When writing outside your identity produces unexpected success

I wrote a story in a genre I usually hate and it might be the best thing I have ever written but I feel like a fraud

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Achievement in unfamiliar territory challenges self-concept and creates imposter syndrome about artistic identity.

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