on Writers in the Storm:
We all have things that keep us from writing. It might be a lack of time, or analysis paralysis. It might be an inability to start or to finish. Perhaps it is a lack of knowledge — of craft, or story structure, or even your own characters. Maybe, just maybe, it is the flat-out fear that you are [fill in the blank]. Not good enough, not talented, or — heaven forbid — a hack.
Creatives have very fertile imaginations and it is our special talent to create mental messages strong enough and scary enough to fell a rhino.
Let’s leave that talent on the back doorstep for a moment, and talk about something else…
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