{"id":122,"date":"2008-05-23T22:16:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T02:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talechasing.com\/items\/date\/2008\/05\/23\/ill-tell-you-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T22:16:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T02:16:12","slug":"ill-tell-you-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/talechasing-com.local\/ill-tell-you-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll tell you the truth."},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m going to talk about the thing that no one wants to talk about. The thing that writers who are trying to help other writers pretend not to have. Fear.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I was not hitting on all cylanders. I attempted a podcast (which will be up shortly) that I wasn’t really happy with. I even gathered a few people together to talk about writing and wasn’t very happy with how that turned out either. Later on, when I was thinking about getting to that re-edit I thought back to my evening and decided that I might be better off getting to it tomorrow since it was clear that I wasn’t really happy with my performance. I was pretty ok with that and sat down with a book that I bought to help spark my creativity. I got so into it that I read for several hours. It even sparked me to want my book to be as good.\u00c2\u00a0 I read until I got to tired to stay awake.<\/p>\n
This morning when I woke up somehow that great spark of hope turned inwards on itself into fear and self-doubt. I contemplated beginning the re-write and nothing I thought about writing seemed like it was going to be good enough. I managed to let my fear take over.<\/p>\n