Why It’s Not A Sin To Admit You’re Scared To Write

Do you write as much as you could be writing in your life right now?
Can you say you’re happy with the standard and the volume of your creating writing?
Didn’t think so… So that being the case, there must be something holding you back.
There must be a factor, or number of factors, that’s preventing you from writing more often, more deeply, more truthfully, more rewardingly.
What is it that’s stopping you?
Whatever you think it is, it can be narrowed down to one simple thing: fear.
Whether it’s fear of failing, fear of being disappointed in how your writing might turn out, fear of not having your work accepted to be published, fear of becoming successful and given a multiple book deal, or any other type of fear. It’s fear, one and the same.
What compounds this fear, what makes it even more difficult to bear is that you feel you SHOULDN’T be scared.
You feel it’s foolish to be afraid of writing, after it’s just putting words on a page isn’t it?
The first step to starting to overcome some of these fears is to accept it’s OK to be feeling this way.
All writers get scared. Many writers spend more of their lives being scared than not scared.
Writing, to the writer, is everything. By your writing you stand or fall, succeed or fail, become loved or despised.
If you don’t write, it’s even worse.
The secret is not to try to eliminate this many headed beast of fear that lurks over every word you create.
The secret is to know it’s OK that it’s there. And maybe it’ll always be there in some form or other, giving you that twisted knot in your stomach and that trace of sweat on your brow.
But you can still create despite the fear. You can create through the fear. You create over it, under it, around, whichever way it takes.
Because deep down you know it’s more important for you to write than to not be afraid.
Take comfort that every writer feels the same kind of fears at some point or other. But despite these feelings – as many thousands of writers have done before you, and many thousands will after you – you can be afraid and still write the most wonderful words.
So start writing them today. Laugh at the fear, summon up that deep courage that dwells within you and throw the greatest words you have right down there on the page.