I've posted a lot recently about the fears that writers have. There are so many parts of our writing world that we allow to frighten us.
To name only a few, some of us fear:
- making the first submission
- entering a contest
- not being good enough
- competing with other writers
- exposing our work to a critique group
- applying for membership in a critique group
- never being published
- not measuring up to other writers
- staying in one place; not growing as a writer
- what readers have to say about our writing
- taking a class; maybe it will be too difficult
- the editing process
- writing nothing but crummy stuff
- rejection
- and more...
Today's poster quote tells us to let our dream be bigger than our fears. Every writer has a dream; a dream that can run from the simplest accomplishment to the greatest. What we dream about our writing journey is ours alone. Dream small and move on to another dream, proceeding until you hit the big one. Or start with that giant dream right from the start.
There are other words that we can substitute for the word dream. Use aim or goal if you'd rather, but do have a dream, aim, or goal. Pass right by those fears we all have now and then, and reach for the stars.
Some of you are agreeing with that while maybe others are not. If you let the fears take precedence, you're going to have a hard time attaining that dream. Keep the dream at the top and push the fears to the bottom of the page.
Center everything you do on your writing journey on that dream you have. Put it first and foremost, no matter what fears pop up. You can deal with those fears one at a time, but you can't bring the dream back if you let the fears take over.
Once again, dear Readers, it's up to you to put things in the right order.
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