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The courage you need to write

The courage you need to write
At first when I started writing I thought it was because I didn’t know that much about the techniques that’s why I was scared. Until I realized that other pro writers where scared.
With every passing day I write . My admiration for the writers that show up to write grows.
Writing is an act of courage. Everyday I have to muster the courage to show up and write.
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer – Margaret Atwood.
I write in terror. I have to…

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The courage you need to write


At first when I started writing I thought it was because I didn’t know that much about the techniques that’s why I was scared. Until I realized that other pro writers where scared.


With every passing day I write . My admiration for the writers that show up to write grows.


Writing is an act of courage. Everyday I have to muster the courage to show up and write.




Quote

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer – Margaret Atwood.


I write in terror. I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable. — Cynthia Ozick



I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. – Jerzy Kosinki



All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write — Gabriel Garcia Marquez


I suffer as always from the fear or putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors,the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one. – John Steinbeck.



Blank pages inspire me with terror. — Margaret Atwood.


If we had to say what writing is,we will have to define it essentially as an act of courage. – Cynthia Ozick.




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For me it is the fear that I am not good enough. I remind myself by telling myself that if I don’t write I will never be good enough.


What is your biggest fear when it comes to writing?



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