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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sniktch" data-source="post: 517539" data-attributes="member: 7704">Here, here!I hope you make it, too, seasong.  I identified a lot with your post while I was reading it and felt I had to chime in.  Its amazing to me how crippling the fear of failure can be - it can sometimes paralyze you to the extent that you simply don't do anything at all!  And to me, at least, the fear of sharing my work and the fear of failure go hand-in-hand; I'm afraid to share my work because it might not be well received and that will mean (on some level) that I've failed.However, I'm thrilled at the reception I've received so far and have become completely addicted to writing my daily pages.  I've started to wake up in a cold sweat at night when I realize I haven't updated in a day or two.  See, now that I've started writing again, I don't ever want to stop!So, keep it up, seasong!  Here's to hoping that in a year we both have manuscripts written and we can look back fondly at the anxiety we felt while making our first post, while watching the page views slowly crawl towards one hundred, and all the other pangs and flashes that kept us awake at night, feverishly typing away while we waited for sleep to overtake us.</blockquote>