My Greatest Writing Fear. What's Yours?
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Re: My Greatest Writing Fear. What's Yours?
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Eventually, as my reading broadened, I realised that every writer is different, some obsess over it every second, some compare it to pulling teeth, and some, like the great ones above, have a huge fire behind them propelling them forward through every word they put down.
I now have a quote that I love and can relate to, that has helped me quench the fear of not being good enough, of not being meant to write.
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." Ernest Hemingway
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Getting back to the topic, my greatest writing fear is one day I'll realize that I've wasted my time doing 'nothing'...
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The only real gripe I may have with it is if it would take too long for me to write something.
Like, from several months up to years. I wouldn't enjoy writing a single piece of content for that long.
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It sounds like you had a fear for technology in general though Robert, not to writing. Right now from what you describe we're sort of in the opposite spectrum. I hate marketing because I'm not good at it, and you spend too much time on it an neglect actual writing. Maybe if we swapped parts of our brains we would both be content?
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There are days when I wish my muse would be watching me from over my shoulder and smack me in the head with a rolled-up newspaper if I start to rewrite a piece of text more than twice.
― Margaret Weis
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I understand not everybody will like/ dislike/ agree/ disagree with what I write, but if no one understands it, then it kind of defeats the meaning of writing my book in the first place.
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