fear

Some people see my old logo and immediately rattle off
"See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." 
I would change evil to fear. 

Not the kind of fear that keeps you from jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.
The other kind of fear 
the one that keeps you safe ...
keeps you comfortable and content ...
never stretching your boundaries and finding out what you can do. 
 
You won't die. 
You might stammer a little, have some heart palpitations 
and then walk out a stronger person. 
If it isn't a raging success, you'll cry in your beer, dust yourself off, and give it another go. 
The next time you'll be smarter and more wily. 

Writing is one of the scariest things we can do. Writing is staring fear in the face. Do I have anything worthy to say? Will what I have to say make any sense? Will I expose too much? Be too personal? Sound stupid? 
Writing is being vulnerable.  
You need a magic shield to keep those arrows of fear going straight to your writing soul causing you to hunker down and quit.
Shields can come from many places, shoring up your confidence by knowing if you wrote- you won already.
It can come from a writing group, a schedule of filling notebooks with freewrites, morning pages a la Julia Cameron, the philosophy of "shitty first drafts" (thank you Anne Lamott).
​It can come from reading books on writing. It can come from a coach, a mentor, a class. 
I can help you develop that shield... so you can write. 
You'll still be afraid. 
​But you'll do it. ​

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