Author Fears and How to Overcome Them

By Joanne Morrell

How many times have you said ‘your writing’s crap’ or shied away from calling yourself an author?

Take comfort in knowing your author fears are valid, other writers feel the same way you do but are not letting fear stop them from putting themselves out there.

We are all feeling the fear, but doing what we love anyway.
And you can too.

Since starting to write your novel, have you developed any of these author fears below?

Are you using them as reasons not to advance in your writing career?

This book touches upon:

CONFIDENCE FEARS
Comparisonitis
Exposing Yourself
Your Life Will Change
Lacking Motivation
Feeling Like a Fraud
Inadequacy
Being Judged by Others
Looking Stupid
You Will Never Make it as an Author

GENRE FEARS
Children’s Fiction
Historical Fiction
Horror
Memoir
Non Fiction
Romance

MENTAL HEALTH IN WRITERS
Anxiety
Depression

SELF DOUBT
People Will Laugh at Me
People Will Talk About me
Becoming Overly Successful
Wasting time in an Unknown Future
Who cares About My Book
Who am I too Write a Book?


CRAFT FEARS
Criticism
Defamation
My Book is too Short
Lack of Talent
Originality
Plagiarism
Being Rejected
Running out of Ideas
Self Publishing Snobbery

PHYSICAL FEARS
Money
Unsupportive People
Responsibilities
Time