I took this picture for myself when I lived in Tampa, Florida. I had an office in my closet. 🙂 I really needed to remind myself to just have fun while I wrote. I needed to tune out the voices and the people pleasing . . . and especially the fear.
The fear of making a mistake.
The fear of being wrong.
The fear of getting a bad review.
The fear of exposing too much of myself.
The fear of my second book not selling well.
The fear of never being accepted in certain publishing circles.
Etc., etc., etc.
I learned later that fear is a good thing. In fact, we should use it as a litmus test. If we are afraid, it means we showed up on the page.
P.S. Some of Brene Brown’s work helped me through this process. 🙂
Turns out, Within the Veil is a really good book (I cried for 3 days when I finished it). It transformed me as I wrote it. I got stronger. And that was a really good thing.