Write So Fast You Leave No Room for Fear or Self-Doubt

August Birch
The Book Mechanic
Published in
5 min readSep 16, 2019

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Writers, start your engines — we’re about to write quick

Photo by Isaac Jenks on Unsplash

When I first started writing I was so self-conscious I rarely published anything I wrote. I was afraid of rejection, afraid of failure, afraid of looking like an amateur, and afraid of coming across as an idiot. In fact, I wrote five full thrillers before I published my first.

That ugly, nasty writing fear is paralyzing. No matter what you write — fiction or non.

Although the fear never leaves, there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on your best work.

I tried many different methods to relieve this fear: mediation, positive affirmations, listening to positive podcasts — but nothing worked anywhere near as well as the method I’m about to share.

If you want to stop being scared, self-conscious, or reluctant, it’s time to go all Ricky Bobby on your writing. We’ve got to go fast.

Myth: fast writing equals poor writing

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August Birch
The Book Mechanic

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