Writing Superheroes

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead~ Gene Fowler

If only it were that easy.

Oh, so finding the words might not be so hard, but getting beyond the very start, getting to a point where you’re willing to:

  • Share
  • Submit
  • Publish
  • Send
  • Put on a website
  • Read out loud

Well… that can mean getting past a whole lot of demons.  The voices of the inner critic.  The doubters inside us and about us.  A wild, ridiculous host of fears:

  • Fear of failure
  • Fear of success
  • Fear of not being published
  • Fear of (the attention from) being published
  • Fear of criticism
  • Fear of embarassment
  • Fear of being noticed
  • Fear that no-one will notice
  • Fear of false starts
  • Fear of getting stuck
  • Fear of losing the plot
  • Fear of the time it’ll take
  • Fear of not being able to do it

I’m sure you’ve more of your own ;-)

Sometimes writing them down makes them seem smaller, more foolish, more like grumbling gremlins that we can easily skip on past.

But sometimes it still takes courage to keep on walking, keep on writing, keep on sharing.

To paraphrase… to feel the fear and write it anyway :-)

Here’s to writing superheroes everywhere.  Have a great weekend.

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After I’d drafted this I kept on stumbling other posts on resistance, fear, the inner critic, and getting past it… here’s some of them:

When Your Inner Critic is on Steroids: Betsy Wuebker at Passing Thru

Something About Tension and Vision: Janice Cartier

The Tale of the Bird, the Boy and the Big Brave Steps: by Emma Newman at Post Apocalyptic Publishing