Are You Brave Enough To Battle 15,000 Bees or Just Write a Book?

Writing is a way of understanding stuff, not just yourself or the story in your book, but the way you look at the world.

And that takes being brave.

We are all brave and fearful in big and small ways in our own lives every damn day.

For me, Carrie just putting my voice out here on the podcast is terrifying because I had a teacher who made me stay in from recess once to tell me that I needed to fix my sloshy s’s because nobody would ever love a girl who sounded like me, no employer would hire me and no college would take me.

“Nobody will listen to a girl that sounds like you. Nobody will take you seriously. Nobody will ever marry you.”

So, doing a podcast might be super easy for some people? For me? Not so much because my brain hits back to those negative mental scripts of the past.

For Shaun…?

Here’s the thing. Life isn’t always awesome. And when it’s crappy, we have to keep writing and being brave. Sometimes it’s hard to focus. Sometimes it’s hard to believe there is a point. You think, “how is my story about a manatee and a sasquatch falling in love relevant?”

We get scared.

So, you have to say to hell with fear, to hell with doubt. Damn it, everyone wants a love story with a manatee and a sasquatch.

Ridicule is a big fear for writers and for humans. We’re afraid of being persecuted, trolled, laughed at, of having someone say we and our life and our story is worthless.

Nobody will ever listen to … nobody will ever read … nobody will ever care…

That fear? It’s super real.

So we have to kick it’s ass and/or live with it and write and live anyway. We have to be brave.

We have to remember to be brave enough to believe in positive things about our selves and our lives and our worth.

Sometimes it can help to remember:
A LOT OF PEOPLE SUFFER FROM THIS

Reach out to other writers or humans. Encourage each other. Share your worries and stories. Lift each other up.

WRITE LIKE THE WORLD IS ON PAUSE

Do whatever you have to do to ignore the rest of the world during your writer time. Turn off notifications and your phone. Put on headphones. Shut the door. Do the work alone. The world can wait for those 2,000 words to get out.

REMEMBER YOU KICK ASS

Seriously, look at you, living another day, surviving, thinking, doing. You kick ass. You have value. Your story has value. When you are compelled to write something, that is for a reason. Nobody gets to tell you that your work doesn’t matter. If you make it? It matters.

We can't fit all our notes here, (more tips, links we reference) but you can read them here! 

WRITING TIP OF THE POD

Be brave. Take your power. Write your story. Get it out there. Don’t let anyone hold you back.

DOG TIP FOR LIFE

Be the master blaster. You’ve got to put yourself out there. Don’t let the humans tell you that you’re no good.

SHOUT OUT! 

The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License.

Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song?  It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.

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