Comments on: Writing Through Fear and Anxiety https://diymfa.com/writing/how-to-write-through-fear-and-anxiety/ Tools & Techniques for the Serious Writer Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brenda Joyce Patterson https://diymfa.com/writing/how-to-write-through-fear-and-anxiety/#comment-4084 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:42:00 +0000 http://diymfallc.wpengine.com/?p=31284#comment-4084 In reply to Rebecca Hunter.

Thanks, Rebecca. 🙂

]]> By: Brenda Joyce Patterson https://diymfa.com/writing/how-to-write-through-fear-and-anxiety/#comment-4083 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:41:00 +0000 http://diymfallc.wpengine.com/?p=31284#comment-4083 In reply to Lorien.

Lorien, I hope you’ve made it through your bout with fear. “Write your way out of it” is a little too glib, I think. (I hate when people say that.) While putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is ultimately our goal, acknowledging fear and its impact puts us a step closer to that goal. The trick is to NOT give up this lovely and crazed act of creating with words along the way.

]]> By: Brenda Joyce Patterson https://diymfa.com/writing/how-to-write-through-fear-and-anxiety/#comment-4082 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:21:00 +0000 http://diymfallc.wpengine.com/?p=31284#comment-4082 In reply to Leanne Sowul.

Thanks, Leanne. I too enjoy reading about writers’ struggle with anxiety and frustration. It’s good to see I’m not alone in my sometimes terror of facing a blank page. Just that alone keeps me pushing forward.

]]> By: Lorien https://diymfa.com/writing/how-to-write-through-fear-and-anxiety/#comment-4061 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:06:00 +0000 http://diymfallc.wpengine.com/?p=31284#comment-4061 Thanks for this! Great article. I’m going through one of these fear periods right now, and I love that you didn’t just say “write your way out of it!” Haha. Negative capability is a great concept. It’s hard to have enough faith to stay with the nothingness, but that’s sometimes where our best stuff comes from. Or so we hope ;).
Thanks again.

]]> By: Leanne Sowul https://diymfa.com/writing/how-to-write-through-fear-and-anxiety/#comment-4056 Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:32:00 +0000 http://diymfallc.wpengine.com/?p=31284#comment-4056 Beautiful article, Brenda! I love reading about how other writers handle that anxiety and frustration when the creative juices run dry. So inspiring that you kept persevering.

]]> By: Rebecca Hunter https://diymfa.com/writing/how-to-write-through-fear-and-anxiety/#comment-4055 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:35:00 +0000 http://diymfallc.wpengine.com/?p=31284#comment-4055 Beautifully written, Brenda! Love this: “We poets transform that nothingness ‘into something palpable.’”

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