A quick note about future blog posts: starting next week, I’ll be blogging once a week for the rest of the summer. I’ll combine Teen Tuesday with the regular Friday post throughout July and August. See you on Fridays!
Fear and phobias
Someone asked me recently how similar my debut novel, Pandemic, is to my current work-in-progress. The stories are different in terms of plot and subject matter, but one concept that they have in common is the idea of fear. Each main character struggles with something that she is afraid of.
That conversation led me to think more about fears and phobias. Here are a few common ones, plus some that were new to me:
That conversation led me to think more about fears and phobias. Here are a few common ones, plus some that were new to me:
- Acrophobia: fear of heights
- Ergophobia: fear of work
- Lutraphobia: fear of otters
- Lygophobia: fear of darkness
- Ornithophobia: fear of birds
- Phasmophobia: fear of ghosts
- Porphyrophobia: fear of the color purple
- Scolionophobia: fear of school
- Scriptophobia: fear of writing in public
- Selachophobia: fear of sharks
What are you afraid of? I have an illogical fear of bees, apiphobia.
Share your fears below. (Unless you have blog-comment-phobia!)
Share your fears below. (Unless you have blog-comment-phobia!)
And in case you suffer from atychiphobia, the fear of failure, I'll end with this inspirational video:
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