Fear of Vulnerability Is Crippling Your Writing
Learn how to work through the fear of publishing your work
When you decided to become a writer were you afraid? When you imagined turning in your two-week notice and saying goodbye to your day job forever, how’d you feel? Excited, right.
I haven’t reached the level of quitting my job yet, but I imagine the look on my boss’s face when I hand in my resignation. Savana, Stacy, Sean, Embry — these are all names I imagine he will attempt to call me until he settles on my actual name. Not sure why he can’t get my name right, but at that moment I won’t care, cause I’ll be following my dream of writing full-time.
If you’re like me and want to write, but fear the powerlessness of your words, it’s okay. Every writer has likely suffered the same thought. The fear of not writing good content — quality content — terrifies me.
Still, fearing vulnerability will stop any progress you’ve made in writing.
Ask yourself these questions
- Do you become sad because “if you could only get your headline like…” your article would go viral?
- Are you so caught up in reading other writers’ works, wishing you could replicate their style, that you forget to actually write?
