How I Deal With My Fear of Writing
A writer writes
Sometimes I fight writing
I know I have a great idea and I’ve even started it inside my mind, but I put the brakes on.
I don’t want to transfer it to paper because I’m afraid that if I start and then am interrupted by the telephone, or by a child’s cry, or by the dryer’s buzzer I fear that I may lose it altogether.
Instead of starting, I keep it inside to protect and nurture it until the timing is right to let it loose.
But have I lost ideas entirely because of this?
I don’t know.
I can’t remember.
Perhaps blissfully I lose ideas but is this better than knowingly losing ideas?
I’ve never chanced starting to write knowing that I had only 30 minutes to get my idea down. I’ve never risked it. I’m too afraid that if I let the idea loose without completing it, well then, I’d lose it forever.
