Comments on: Do You Fear Failure?

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By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:28:55 +0000

Thanks for this great advice. I’ve coined a phrase, Give Fear the Finger and I’m doing just that on my blog. It chronicles how I’m overcoming my fear of being read because it is in direct conflict with my goal of being a writer! I think people need to come out of the closet and get other people involved in their battle to succeed. Mutual support can only be a good thing. Check out http://inthehotspot.wordpress.com/ and let’s give fear the finger together. Good luck everyone:)

By: The Procrastinating Writer

The Procrastinating Writer — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:22:15 +0000

@Sandra STOP reading/studying about how to write and just sit down and write! Living in an information society is fantastic because all the knowledge you could ever want is at your fingertips. However, for a procrastinating writer, it could mean disaster. Spending too much time reading/researching how to write, rather than just jumping in and writing, is counterproductive. By now you know enough about writing to write, so sit down and write!

One of the best and most important things you can do for yourself and your writing is ignore the criticism and just get the words on the page.

Write now, worry about editing/criticism later.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:45:00 +0000

It really is an uphill battle when you fear both failure and success – and I do.

I’m currently being frozen in place by how nit-picky critical everything to do with writing is. I’ve heard to shut off the internal editor and just write, but I’m having trouble doing that now that it’s been turned on by all the reading/studying I’ve been doing on how to write.

I think the only thing I’m going to feel I can write is back to my fanfiction . . . and I’m even getting uptight about that.

Sandra