#fearsetting

Is Success The Thing That Scares Us? Or Is It Failure We Really Fear?

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill If you fear failure, the above quote from Winston Churchill can be seen as comforting, failing at something can be a huge blow to our egos. But what if you aren’t scared to fail? What if succeeding is the thing that scares you most? Failure is something that some of us are quite prepared for.…

Being Swallowed by a Whale is So Bad Ass – Fear Setting and the Big Lie in Your Novel and Your Life

A lot of writers get blocks. Sometimes those blocks have to do with story ideas, with the fear that their idea sucks, that they don’t have the writing chops to pull off a novel. Sometimes those blocks have to do with worry that trolls will ridicule their story, nobody will read it, everyone will hate it. Sometimes those blocks have to do with the fear of typos, of not being perfect. But they…

How to: NOT start a blog.

Failure #1 Let it grow! let it grow!

So we are one week into the official launch of this calamity, after just one week. I while speaking with friends, family members, and potential collaborators, each conversation went about like this.  What you are about to read is a reenactment,  the names of the individuals below have been changed to protect the innocent for the purposes of this Post we will…