Fear is an unhealthy self-awareness where you’re so in your head, while simultaneously so minutely observing yourself from an external perspective, that you freeze up and shut down. If we don't try we can't fail. If we don't push ourselves, we will never fall short. For authors that may mean staring at a blank page in paralysis; abandoning a story because you worry you can’t finish or can’t do it justice or aren’t good enough; never submitting or sharing your work because you’re afr...
