Fear
I had this great post I was going to do today on fear of success and fear of failure, and why it stymies writers into progressing on their books.
But New York Times Bestselling Author Allison Brennan put up a post on the Murder She Writes blog last week, and said it brilliantly. I really have nothing to add, so I’ll send you there to read it. Honestly, it’s all true. We are our own worst enemies. Don’t let your fears stop you.
Just write the damn book.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Thanks so much for passing that on, Jaci. I was nodding away as I read it!
March 10th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Yeah, that’s an awesome piece. I was nodding too.
Thanks for pointing us in its direction, Jaci!
March 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am
That was wonderful. It really hits home after this weekend. I have written everyday since the challenge began. I have been hitting my daily count, but this weekend was hard. Saturday I had to do all my weekend chores and when I finally sat down, I was exhausted, but I wrote. On Sunday, the sun was shining and the family was outside enjoying it, however, I wrote. The fear of failure has held me hostage for to long and I have made the commitment to move forward. Thank you for the inspiration today. Now I just have to wait until I get home tonight. LOL It’s always something.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am
It was a very good piece, Jaci. Thanks for pointing us to it.
I need to sort out my weekends. I don’t do badly during the week, mainly I think, because I write to a deadline during my lunchbreak. But at the weekends all that time I have slips away (even with going shopping/ taking the dogs out/ visiting my mumetc.) there’s still a good couple of lunchtimes worth of hours left for me to write in. I just don’t seem to be able to do it.
Obviously, I need to go to the library or something instead and write there if I can’t for whatever reason do it at home.
Does anyone else have this (admittedly weird) problem?
March 11th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Just do it.