By guest blogger Catherine Greti I’m in the last module of the Fear of Writing graduate course and facing an assignment that asks me to be a guest blogger on the FoW blog. That’s Milli—helping us push past our limits again! I’m just getting comfortable with my own blogging site, and that was created only…
Category Archives: confidence/self-belief
Fear of Rejection
By guest blogger Patrick Ross Six weeks. Thirty-five states. Forty-three interviews. Six thousand, eight hundred miles. Four time zones. One speeding ticket. Those are some key statistics from my summer 2010 road trip across the United States. I headed out in a rented hybrid to capture on video creative individuals. My interview subjects included writers,…
Fear: It’s a Personal Thing
By George Angus I spend a lot of time on Twitter. I imagine it’s because of the type of folks I follow, but I see a lot of quotes tweeted that have to do with fear. Specifically a lot of these quotes have to do with conquering fear, having courage, blah, blah, blah. They don’t…
Writer Discovered While Waitressing
By Milli Thornton One of my screenwriting idols is Diane Thomas. Back in the early 80′s, Diane pioneered a new genre—the action-adventure/comedy-romance—with her script for Romancing the Stone. Diane was waitressing when she had the opportunity to pitch her script to customer Michael Douglas, who proceeded to buy, produce and star in the film with…
Do You Have a Writing Destiny?
By Milli Thornton DESTINY. Quite a grand word, isn’t it? Something to live up to. Something to stir (or chill?) the blood. On the other hand, sometimes it can be healthy to look at grand words and concepts from a fresh perspective to avoid stereotyping them. After all, we’re writers; words should be at our…
“Aussie” Al McCartan – Fear of Writing Success Story
I’VE KNOWN AL for years now, as a Fear of Writing regular and as one of the global friendships I’ve made while doing this work. Al has contributed as a reader on the Articles page at fearofwriting.com and as a mad-keen scribbler during the 10K Day. (He’s famous for launching a 10K Day while everybody…
Skydiving as a Writer
By guest blogger Jimmy Hanson 10,000 WORDS in one day. Now, normally this would make a person panic. Kind of like sky-diving, that thing where it looks awesome from afar but when you’re actually there looking out the window it suddenly hits you – wham! You’re a thousand feet off the ground and you’re going…
How I Am Overcoming My Inner Critic and My Fear of Success
by guest blogger Lois Eighmy EVERY TIME I begin a story, I hear my inner critic telling me it’s a stupid idea. Or maybe she tells me it is a good idea, but not something I can do well. Sometimes she may be right, but more often, she is not. I went through a long…
Confidence Doesn’t Grow on Trees
Like many writers who work from home, I don’t get the same daily exposure to humanity that a normal person does. Even though, from my years of working with writers and closet writers, I should know better, I tend to carry the mental picture that most other writers were born naturally confident (which I was…
