Tag: Perspective

INSIGHTS: CONQUER Early Writing Fear

We must seek, not hide. No matter how ucky we might feel at first, we must fight through the uck and NOT surrender. We must stay curious and want to keep going–more than we want to be comfortable with starting something new.

If you want to write STRONG, How You Write EARLY is EVERYTHING. It’s your heart and soul. Your belief in yourself. Your confidence that YOU CAN do this crazy hard creative thing, again and again with each new project.

It never gets easier–trusting that you can. SO… It’s time to accept the doubt as part of your job, don’t feed it with your limited stores of energy, and GET ON WITH IT!

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How to explain to the uninitiated how planning and prepping and early drafting for a new novel feels???

It’s like finding out you’re pregnant, I guess, and wondering what your new baby will be like. Or graduating from college, hoping and dreaming about that first job you’re finally starting… But are you ready? Or meeting the person you think will be your soul mate, and wondering if your life together could really be that amazing.

Or, if you’re an angsty writer… Will what you’re about to do totally suck eggs?

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Here’s how the fear sinks its talons into even the most experienced of us. Continue reading “INSIGHTS: CONQUER Early Writing Fear”