By guest blogger Roz Wilson The term “emotional rescue,” coined by my new friend and author of Fear of Writing, Milli Thornton, sounds like a real remedy that I am in desperate need of. I’ve been looking for a great excuse to write without restraint and with Attitude, Baby! I feel the power already. I…
Category Archives: claiming writerhood
Writing Past the Fear
By guest blogger Valeka Cruz FOR AS LONG as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a writer. By the time I was eight years old, I knew that I wanted to create magical stories with characters that spoke to my readers. I spent hour upon hour in my bedroom writing short stories,…
What’s YOUR Story?
By guest blogger Ann McElfresh. Photos Copyright © Ann McElfresh. I WAS LUCKY enough to attend the Food Bloggers Forum in beautiful Walt Disney World recently. As I walked into the welcome reception, I thought, “Who am I to be among such giants?” I knew I had a lot to learn – I had no…
Pooooooor Mummy!
By Milli Thornton A MEMORY from when my daughter was a toddler (she’s now almost 28) kept calling to me. For some reason, I had scribbled it into the notebook I keep next to me for capturing ideas to blog about. I have several blogs and it was definitely recorded in the section for the…
The Golden Gift of Touching One Reader
By Milli Thornton SOMETHING HAPPENED recently to remind me that touching even one reader has a value that cannot be measured. A reader on a recent post, A Week of Taking Action, said she was so inspired by what I’d written she was going to do an “Afternoon of Taking Action” starting right that very…
Spider: Creativity and Weaver of Fate
By Milli Thornton In a post earlier this month, Writing for the End of the World, I decided to use talk of 2012 being the end of the world as a way to explore what I would do if this really was the last year of my life. I said: All I know is that…
Inner Kid and Igor Converse About Writing
By Milli Thornton INNER KID: Good morning! I’m planning to just stretch myself out, relax and enjoy this day. What are your thoughts on the matter? (As if I didn’t already know. . . .) EGO: Well, it’s a 10K Day. That’s 10,000 words. We’re going to have to be disciplined, organized and work hard…
Writing and Singing – What’s the Diff?
By Milli Thornton SOMETIMES WHEN I’M feeling overwhelmed by my workload, or when I’m feeling sleep deprived, I’ll have one of those horrible existential moments when my life—and my writing—feels meaningless. That’s always when my dinosaur brain comes up with some really supportive self-talk for my writing, such as, “What’s the point of working this…
The Ways We Fraud Ourselves (Especially Writers?!)
By guest blogger Sandra Williams After reading Do You Suffer from Impostor Syndrome? on my friend Julia Munroe Martin’s writing blog, wordsxo, I decided to pull this post out of the archives from 2008. Because whenever we’re feeling this way, we’re apt to believe that we’re the only one. — Milli I’VE FOUND THAT whatever…
Thrilling First Results of the “Travel Writer Crash Course”
THE FIRST WRITER who read the Travel Writer Crash Course here on the Fear of Writing blog (which takes about 10 minutes to read) did not think she was qualified to participate in the program—but she took the risk of applying and has had a wonderful experience so far. Here is the story behind the…
