Our hosts this month are Feather Stone, Janet Alcorn, Rebecca Douglass, Jemima Pett, and Pat Garcia.
Here's our question for this month: Some common fears writers share are rejection, failure, success, and lack of talent or ability. What are your greatest fears as a writer? How do you manage them?
At this point in my career, my greatest writing fear is that I won't finish everything I want to write before I die or am no longer able to write. My son may be almost grown, but the demands on my time continue to increase. Work and household chores haven't changed, but it seems like my civic duties have increased. Plus, I have other hobbies I like to work on, such as crochet and learning to play the harp (I just started a month ago and tell my friends it's my mid-life crisis.) This leaves me with little time to write, but the ideas keep coming. The main way I manage this is to carve out at least some time every day to write, even if I only get a few sentences down.
What are your writing fears? Feel free to share them in the comments.
6 comments:
Your son is graduating! I remember when he was a little boy, spending the night with dinosaurs.
If you've other interests now, that's all right. You'll circle back around to all those stories when the time is right.
I agree with everything Alex says. Work, family, and other hobbies are important too. I'm focusing on crocheting stuffed animals to donate right now. I'm enjoying it and blogging more than writing right now so that's what I'm focusing on more. Don't feel guilty.
I've scaled back DLP stuff but now I seem busier than ever. But a lot of it is happy and creative stuff like my food boards, gardening, and learning Spanish. So, it's okay.
Time management, the ultimate challenge. =) Congrats on getting a son to graduation! Whew! I still have two more to get there and my tongue is hanging out...but it's encouraging to see them level up. Even if young adults are THE WORST. LOL. (I say that lovingly, from the perspective of a parent. I think everyone else loves them, I just get all their trauma as "Mom.")
Congratulations to your son! 2 big milestones.
I hear you about the sense of not having enough time. I'm in a season of my life where my time and energy for writing (and, to be honest, my motivation for writing) is limited, and I'm trying to learn to be OK with it. Operative word: trying.
I fear the same thing. This book world I have has been in my head for a decade and I don't know if I will ever get all the books I want to write out of my head before I die. Time never seems to be in my favor and I try to do all I can but it is never enough. Congrats on your son's graduation and 18 is a big number. Wish you all the best.
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