Overcoming a fear of writing

Re:Overcoming a fear of writing by ekpyrotic on Thursday March 26, 2009 @12:35PM (#533691)

I fear writing; a result of my perfectionism. The prospect of defective prose frightens me, so I don't try. A thought I put to paper last month:

"I am imprisoned within my lack of clarity and lack of style. Fucking failure. Chained to a quiet and passive existence.

I want to express; I want to free my ideas; I want to communicate my message; but I fucking can’t. I can’t clear this painful fog."

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Re:Overcoming a fear of writing by GeneralMaximus on Thursday March 26, 2009 @01:46PM (#533809)

I just decided to write a lot. Even if it doesn't make sense (http://blog.uncool.in/2009/03/26/episode-1-perspective-shift...). I suppose after a month or so of writing crap, I'll be able to loosen up my rusty writing skills a bit and my writing will become more natural.

You might want to try that.

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Re:Overcoming a fear of writing by michael_dorfman on Thursday March 26, 2009 @03:17PM (#533971)

I agree. Commit to writing 3 pages a day, even if it is just repetitive nonsense and ramblings. Feel free to burn the notebook at the end of the month. After a few months of this, you just may find you have loosened things up a bit in terms of the old "the best is the enemy of the good" problem.

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Re:Overcoming a fear of writing by ekpyrotic on Thursday March 26, 2009 @08:10PM (#534391)

I have undertaken that same task; working at it for about a month. It gets easier. (http://dailymis.com/?p=55)

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