Helping Writers Become Authors Ep. 486: How to Overcome Fear as a Writer and Embrace Your Profound Courage
Nov 18, 2019
A frank look at how writing exposes vulnerability, judgment, and self-doubt. A meditation on writing as an act of courage and creative compulsion. Practical five-step strategies for feeling fear, choosing humility, claiming bravery, following fear into growth, and turning fear into truthful material.
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Writing As Constant Vulnerability
- K.M. Weiland describes becoming a writer as constantly exposing yourself to fear and vulnerability.
- She recounts that writing forces you to stand naked before yourself and risk judgment from others and your own ego.
Writing Is A Chosen Act Of Courage
- Continuing to write despite fear is a deliberate act of courage, not merely compulsion.
- Cynthia Ozick's definition frames writing as courage and a hallucinatory madness that writers cannot help but follow.
A Review Reopened Old Insecurities
- K.M. Weiland shares her reaction to a negative review of an early book and how it reopened old insecurities.
- She admits the reviews she agrees with hurt most because they echo the author's own awareness of flaws in past work.