
Some common fears writers share are rejection, failure, success, and lack of talent or ability. What are your greatest fears as a writer? How do you manage them?
“It's hard to be doing all of the stuff at the same time, right? It's hard to have a day job and have time to write. It's hard to teach and have students and have time to write. Yet, I'm never crankier than when I'm not doing it. It's like I just feel clogged in this weird way. I just have all of this stuff that I need to be keeping, sort of coursing through me.”
“If it's not, I'm not actually that much fun to be around and I'm not that good at the other jobs that I have in my life. So being able to keep that channel open, even if it's not for the same amount of time every day or the same number of words every day, just keeping that channel open, I feel like it's the best thing I can do for myself, but it's also the best thing I can do for the people around me.”
Happy Writing!