Struggling With Impostor Syndrome as a Foreign Writer

Alex Steullet
7 min readMay 28, 2020

I’ve always wanted to become a writer. It’s one of the few dreams that I’ve carried along since childhood.

Growing up, I wasn’t meticulous or patient enough to become a paleontologist. I wasn’t handy enough to invent the world’s first flying car. But observe the world around me, weave my impressions into a story, and put that story on paper? Surely, I could do that!

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Alex Steullet

Writing to get better. Tokyo-based polyglot with a degree in human rights. Travel | Humor | Language | Society. Find me anywhere @alexstwrites.