Writers Afraid of Writing
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Were you once a “gifted writer?”
Is writing the thing you love most—and the thing that terrifies you most?
Do you hold writing in such sacred, trembling reverence that actually doing it feels like risking total emotional annihilation? And yet… every day you don’t write feels like spiritual dehydration because words—and the strange people who love them—are where you’ve always felt most at home?
This is a meet-up for people who love the craft but are absolutely riddled with anxiety about practicing it.
Bring whatever you’ve got:
• your 8th-grade journals
• abandoned drafts
• half-baked novels
• tragic little poems
• voice notes, fragments, scribbles
• your grocery list if that’s what made it onto paper this week
If it contains words, it belongs here.
We’re not here to be impressive. We’re here to be honest, stuck, scared, blocked, messy, reverent, avoidant, hopeful—and writing anyway. We love this craft. We also have an anxiety problem. Let’s sit with both… and get some words down together.
Come write badly. Come write slowly. Come write one sentence. Just come.