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Embrace and overcome your fear by putting words down. Start writing, have patience with yourself, and worry about the rest later. The blank page becomes way less scary as soon as you put words on it. 2. Stop procrastinating. Your house is already clean enough. That TV show can wait.
- Don’t Worry If Your Book Isn’t Perfect The First Time. Try not to get caught up thinking about errors in your book. Your goal should be to get all your ideas down and finish your thoughts before you go back and edit.
- Stop Thinking About What Other People Will Think. Do not worry about what others will think of your writing or your book. What matters is that you get your message out.
- Create Time For Yourself To Write. Some people will create an excuse that they don’t have any time to write. If you want to write a book, you must create a block of time every day reserved only for writing.
- Know Who You Are Writing For. When you know exactly who your audience is and who you’re writing for, you will be able to speak to your ideal reader easily in your writing.
- The Story Is Too Long. It’s easy to feel like a story is so massive and complicated that you will never be able to do it justice. Most ideas spark from a novel premise or a vision of a story’s climax.
- Story Structure Is Too Hard. “Write a book” sounds easy, but when you delve into it, you realize there’s so much more to it. Inciting incident?
- Leaving Your Story Alone for Too Long. I used to believe that writing a book takes years. It’s such a daunting project, after all. So big, so many details.
- Thinking You’re Not a Good Writer. Yes, you are. You just haven’t written enough yet. This deadly mindset is probably the most common problem preventing burgeoning writers from finishing their book.
- Face and Understand your fear. Think about it, fear is something that hides within you, lurking deep down in your body or mind. Fear doesn’t come in any physical form—it’s neither a person nor an animal.
- Therapy. Just like other forms of phobia, therapy may be advantageous for treating someone with Scriptophobia or graphophobia. The kind of therapies that work for other phobias also work phobias associated with writing.
- Look to Writers You Admire for Inspiration. Sometimes, you’re afraid to write because you’re intimidated by famous writers and are afraid that you’ll never measure up, that is utterly unnecessary.
- Take Breaks When Writing Gets Hard. It can be extremely frustrating to spend hours working on a new article or book chapter only to find yourself stuck and not knowing how to fix your problem.
- Fear. One of the most difficult parts of writing a book comes before you put a single word on the page. Every writer I’ve ever met has faced fear and self-doubt.
- Finding Time to Write. Writing an entire book doesn’t happen in a day. It takes a dedicated period of time, taking weeks or even months. Of course, regular life won’t conveniently pause for you to give you the time you need.
- Meeting Deadlines. Writing a book is an enormous undertaking. To break that into manageable tasks, these writers were given weekly deadlines. That didn’t mean those deadlines were easy to meet, though.
- Perfectionism. The book in your imagination is wonderful. Brilliant! Genius! Inspired! If critics could only read it right now, you’d be on the top of the NYT Bestseller list, no question.
When writers let fear stop us from writing, we’re faced with two choices: let it win, or find productive ways to combat the fear, so we can keep writing. Some fear can be positive: it scares us into doing our best work rather than settle for junk. It makes us educate ourselves and stay on top of our craft. And it pushes us to reach out for ...
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Fear of disappointing yourself. Fear of not writing your story to its full potential. Fear you lack the necessary skills to write a good story. Fear you lack enough real life experience. Fear you may be writing for appearances instead of for a true desire to be a writer. Fear you may be copycatting another author’s voice.
