Comments on: How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone – Without Freaking Out https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/ A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone – Without Freaking Out | patricailiff https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31086 Thu, 16 May 2013 08:17:58 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31086 […] View the Original article […]

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]]> By: Mary Gottschalk https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31080 Mon, 06 May 2013 18:45:02 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31080 A wonderful post ... my personal mantra comes from Ray Bradbury about "stepping off a cliff and growing your wings on the way down." I think of it in terms of learning and growth, but your thoughts on playing around and letting the scary parts steep ("crawl instead of run") are very good advice. Thanks. Would you be interested in doing a guest blog on my website at some point this summer ... being out of your comfort zone is a key theme.

]]> By: Evangeline Holland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31077 Mon, 06 May 2013 01:07:08 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31077 Wonderful post, Laura. Congrats on your debut release!

Ideas out of my comfort zone aggravate and scare the wits out of me because I fear it will reboot me back to the beginning stages if I sit down to write the contemporary romances and SF/F romances floating around in my brain. I've been in "historical romance author" mode for so long, it's difficult to change tack.

]]> By: LauraDrake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31074 Sun, 05 May 2013 10:49:00 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31074 In reply to ellaquinnauthor.

Thank you on all counts, Ella!
I'll bet you're now glad you wrote him the way you did, right? I'll bet he's compelling.

]]> By: kenthinksaloud https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31071 Sun, 05 May 2013 03:37:18 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31071 In reply to LauraDrake.

Ha ha I'll start celebrating ONCE I get that contract actually signed on the dotted line! Until then I'm holding back! On a related note, is there anything on WITS about searching for agents? I could probably do with one but just tend to come across them ad hoc and rarely see one that fits the bill exactly for what I do. Publishers I have extensive lists of and journals/magazines I have plenty of resources for but agents?...tricky...

]]> By: ellaquinnauthor https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31068 Sat, 04 May 2013 17:52:43 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31068 Reblogged this on Ella Quinn ~ Author and commented:
Facinating post.

]]> By: ellaquinnauthor https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31065 Sat, 04 May 2013 17:52:08 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31065 Wonderful post. First congratulations on your upcoming release!!! That is so exciting!!
I had to step out of my comfort zone with my first villain. He was much darker than I wanted him to be. Tweeted and reblogged.

]]> By: Writing Resources 04 May 2013 | Gene Lempp ~ Writer https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31062 Sat, 04 May 2013 13:21:40 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31062 [...] Drake: How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone – Without Freaking Out. Excerpt: “Have you ever done that? Been cruising along in the comfort zone, and all of a [...]

]]> By: LauraDrake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/05/how-to-step-outside-your-comfort-zone-without-freaking-out-2/#comment-31059 Sat, 04 May 2013 10:34:52 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=8180#comment-31059 In reply to kenthinksaloud.

Oh, Ken, congratulations!!! I'm throwing confetti for you! This is a huge milestone! Go celebrate before you knuckle down and do anything!!!

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