Hello Dearios, my friendly writing colleagues- I’m Crescent Dragonwagon. Presumably you’re here because fearless writing has aroused your curiosity. Either because of the Fear and the idea of being free of it, or because of the writing, or most likely both. Now I have to confess, I’ve told a great big lie. There is no such thing as fearless writing. Sadly, we have these elegant beautiful writings in our head and they read very clunkily on paper or screen sometimes, and it is hard, even when it’s going well, you’re still facing blank paper, blank screen. Writing is a continual process of reinvention and you know, you’d be crazy if you didn’t feel a little anxiety or tension around that. Maybe a lot. So what do we do with this fear? We don’t want to kick kitty litter over it and pretend that it doesn’t exist. That just almost gives it more strength. Neither do we want to have it run the show, which is to say, stop the show.
There is a middle ground. In fearless writing, we learn how to invite fear in, make it part of the process, make it a guest at our party, let it energize us, let it give us its gifts, which it has. We don’t push it away, we don’t let it run the show. Instead, it sits there right with us but it doesn’t stop us. So as we work together and play together, in finding your own voice, in telling the stories you are driven to tell, in discovering the stories you have that you didn’t even know you had, all of which happen in fearless writing- You will discover that although fear is present, because you understand this glorious process, and it is glorious, you do fear less. Thank you, see you soon.
The safety, comfort, and security we crave aren’t objective states. They are subjective feelings that come through increasing our understanding of our world and our capabilities. In short, we gain comfort and security by expanding our comfort zones, and we expand our comfort zones by venturing into the risk zone. We make ourselves uncomfortable and insecure for a short time in order to learn what we’re capable of. We can’t directly attain comfort and security; we must strive for them indirectly.
-Arno Ilgner, The Rock Warrior’s Way
i always smile when i see that tiger!! that was a good day 🙂