First-Time Novelists: Dealing with Fear

Dealing with Fear
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Alan Watt

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Many authors share a similar fear: “What will people think?”

It looks slightly different for each writer. What will my parents think when they find out I have these thoughts? What will my friends think when they discover I’m not always as caring as they might have believed? What will my children think when they find out I had sex before I got married?

Becoming a first-time writer is like diving into cold water. It’s a shock, but you adjust. In fact, this is true of anything worth doing in life. Become a first-time writer, or don’t.

The choice isn’t really about writing . . . becoming a writer is about choosing to live your life.

 

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Alan Watt with L.A. hills behind

Alan Watt

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Alan Watt is the author of the international bestseller Diamond Dogs, winner of France’s Prix Printemps, and the founder of alanwatt.com (formerly L.A. Writers’ Lab). His book The 90-Day Novel is a national bestseller. As Alan has been teaching writing for over two decades, his workshops and the 90-day process have guided thousands of writers to transform raw ideas into finished works, and marry the wildness of their imaginations to the rigor of story structure to tell compelling stories.

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