February 21st, 2014
Is Fear Freezing Up Your Creativity?
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Inspiration
by Jenny Hansen
"There isn’t any secret. You sit down and you start and that’s it."
~ Elmore Leonard
Last month, I took a course with Margie Lawson called Defeating Self-Defeating Behaviors, which I would recommend to anyone.
Margie might have geared the course toward writers, but I've already talked a painting/designer friend and my non-writing cousin into taking it as well.… Read the post
September 28th, 2011
Choose Your Fear -- Fear of Success
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Bumps & Bruises on the Road to Publication | Craft | This week at Crit Group
by Fae Rowen
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself; nameless unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts." FDR’s First Inaugural Address
Laura is the queen of quotes--and of not always gentle encouragement, so I'm thanking her at the get-go for making me process my thoughts on a subject that has been a source of many jokes for us here at Writers in the Storm.… Read the post
September 26th, 2011
Choose Your Fear -- The Fear of Not Succeeding
By Laura Drake
We were talking at crit group the other night. Our “throwdown” blogs have grown into more than we’d planned originally. In case you missed them, they were:
Plot vs. Character –
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