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Are You Scared to Write? This Is the Most Important Thing You’ll Ever Read
Are you scared to write? Do you have something inside that you want to express but find it hard or impossible to actually do? And does that then leave this yearning, gnawing, tugging sensation deep in the recesses of your mind that won’t stop telling you you have unfinished work to do?
If so, does this bring deep fear because you know you have this calling on the one hand, but on the other, you’re terrified to embrace it?
I’m scared to write too
You’re just like me, meu amigo, because I too have all these fears. You might see me cranking out multiple posts here on a daily basis and think I’m the definition of a stoic written-word work ethic, but it’s not true.
I fear whether my next article will be as good as the last or if people will actually bother to read it. I worry about whether I have or am about to run out of ideas and slam into some epic, disastrous end-of-my-career impenetrable wall of writer’s block that has me never put a finger to the keyboard here again.
I’m scared to write my novels
But for all my fears about writing these posts, they’re not the biggest fears that haunt me. They’re not the ones that keep me up at night in a cold sweat because…