1. Psychologically Revealing: What we write reveals a little about us as it is pieces of us put on paper.
Create a world. Make stuff up. Dazzle us with your knowledge. In the end, the piece you offer us to read is about you, your knowledge, your past. If you’re male and you write thrillers where women always seem to get beat up and abused, it may tell the reader about your struggle with the opposite sex. What you write is your voice. It comes through quite loud at times. It can reveal what you find appealing and what you find repulsive. What are we seeing between the lines? Although, usually, lucky for us, it’s not obvious. I’m sure there are many readers who get lost in the story and that’s as far as it goes for them. But there are also people who look deeper. If you’re not buying what I’m selling here, read Edgar Allen Poe.

  1. Fear of Rejection: It’s out there. On the internet. Once you’ve written something and submitted it, even if it’s on Facebook, it’s out there. People can now pass judgment. If you fear rejection, this is a tough one. You could always write for yourself. Keep a diary, a journal. Or you could write and allow others to read it. But if you do, criticism will follow. Not from everyone, but there are people with big egos who have to knock what you’ve done, even if it’s great.
Then there’s the editor who puts the story first. They’re the ones to listen to. Get used to critics. Embrace it. Learn to love the coach. Even Hemingway edited.

  1. Fear of failure: This can stop a writer cold. He can be typing through a scene, start thinking about how this whole business of writing isn’t going anywhere and just stop. I’ve heard of writers who then go and delete what they have, close their laptop and walk away. That’s how serious this fear can be. It’s debilitating. Usually people who experience this fear never get published for obvious reasons. These are people who aren’t ready for publication. They fear failure so much that their ability to try has been hampered too much. Remember; Success is found in cans, failure in can’ts.
People have discussed fears for years. We’ve all heard that fear itself is all we should fear.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you should do
~Anthony Robbins

Even though you fear failure, keep typing. Shrug it off. So what if it doesn’t go away. At least you got to write a great story. Share it with ten people or a hundred, or don’t share it at all, but write. That’s what you’ve got to do; write!

Despite your fear of rejection, find a way to get it to inspire you. For every rejection letter you receive, send out two more submissions. When a fellow reader doesn’t give the expected reaction, brush it off as personal taste. All I’m saying is try to focus on you and your writing and not on the naysayer.

Below is a list of some of the other fears writers experience.
  1. Fear of Commitment
  2. Reading to a group
  3. Fear of not “knowing” enough (write what you know)
  4. Never being published
  5. Fear of being published and what that’ll mean to you
  6. Fear of writer’s block
  7. Fear of mediocrity

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop
~Usman B. Asif

Remove fear.
Write.
That’s what we’re here for.
So write.

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Daryl Sedore was born in southern Ontario in 1969. By the age of ten he was already writing short stories. Throughout High School various teachers encouraged him to choose writing as a career, but Daryl decided to invest in the stock market (TSE) in grade 11 and start his first company at the age of seventeen. He built numerous companies and became semi-retired at thirty years of age. During the 1990′s he still wrote short stories, but it wasn’t until the year 2000, that he started writing novels. Daryl has written four novels and over 50 short stories, plus a work of non-fiction called “Publishing Exposed: The Sedore Report” which will be published in November 2010. Six of his short stories have won awards, including, “The Newspaper” which won 6th place out of thousands of entires in the 75th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest.

“Paranormal Precognitions” has been released as an e-book. The second of the trilogy is due out in early 2011. In November, “The Sedore Report” is due, along with four different volumes of his collected short stories featuring all the award winners. His novel “Bad Vibes” will be released in the fall of 2011.


You can connect with him by visiting his website: www.darylsedore.com.