By guest blogger Valeka Cruz I had a moment last week, while working on a course assignment for the Fear of Writing Online Course, that I felt like I had lost my writing mojo. I felt lost and a little confused by this happening. I had been doing great in the course, enjoying and learning…
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Baking Up Words
By guest blogger Valeka Cruz Over the past few months, I have been doing a lot of baking. What started out as baking treats for my dogs, has given way to baking cookies for friends and family. For me, baking “people” cookies started out with simple oatmeal cookies. They were easy, uncomplicated and made me…
Fear of NaNoWriMo!
By guest blogger Carole Jane Treggett Call me crazy, but I’m finally answering the creative call of the wild and doing NaNo this year. In case you might not know what this annual event is all about, the National Novel Writing Month is an online creative writing initiative which challenges participants to write 50,000 words…
Fear of Being Funny
By guest blogger Charlotte Rains Dixon I’ve never thought of myself as funny. And yet, my forthcoming novel (Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior, Vagabondage Press, Feb 2013) is funny. It’s not just me saying that, hoping it’s funny. The novel is actually funny, conceited as it feels to say. How do I know this? (Because there’s…
Listening to Hunches While Writing
By Milli Thornton In a post called Words for the Picking on the wordsxo blog, Julia Munroe Martin was pondering blueberries and writer’s block. At the end of the post, she asked How is your writing going? Are your words there for the picking or do you sometimes feel barren of words? Having used my…
Facing My Fear of Writing Through Pain
By guest blogger Annie Neugebauer I’d like to thank my guest today for courageously writing this post at my request. Annie wrote this on April 17, her dad’s birthday. He would have been 57. Last June, nearing the third anniversary of my dad’s death, I wrote a guest blog for Beyond the Margins called Writing…
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,…
j’s Journey: Writing brave
By Judy Clement Wall I recently read Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, The Chronology of Water, a book I absolutely loved for its determination to look squarely at the wreckage of a truly broken heart and not make it pretty or poetic or simple. Here is the opening sentence: The day my daughter was stillborn, after I…
What I Would Write If I Wasn’t Afraid
By Jennifer Garam Once in a while I see a post on another writer’s blog that I just have to have. I was reading this post over on One Writeous Chick and it felt so perfect for our FoW readers, I asked my friend Jen if I could republish it here. She was happy to…
Survey: What is the nature of your fear of writing beast?
From our survey choices below, please copy and paste as many points as applicable into the Comments section of this post. Feel free to elaborate on your choice(s). If we haven’t pin-pointed your particular brand of writer’s block or fear of writing, please add to our list with your specific predicament. Thank you for participating!…
