This week's writing prompt for Pieces of You is: If I Wasn't Afraid...

"What would you do, if you weren't afraid?" Most of us have some dream or something we'd like to make happen, but haven't yet, because of fear.

If I weren't afraid, I'd submit my writings to magazine and book publishers. I have several finished short stories (non-fan-fic), and have the beginnings of a couple novels, but I'm afraid to pursue publication. I'm afraid that although I think I'm a good writer, and a few of my on-line buddies say I'm a good writer, maybe I'm really not! Maybe I really suck! I'm afraid of how much that will hurt to find out.

I'm afraid to put out there something that I've poured buckets of blood, sweat and tears over, something that came directly from my heart, something I love like an offspring! I'm terrified of the rejection and harsh criticism my work might receive. I'm afraid to let it go out into the world to be judged and picked apart and kicked back at my feet quivering and bleeding. I've put so much of myself in what I've written.

Cheers!
Hez

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ESCAPE

Reading: The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Bernard DeVoto, editor. Call Me Crazy by Anne Heche

Classic Book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Listening to: All-American Rejects, Good Charlotte, Evanessence.

Writing: Nothing lately.

Gratitude: Green, green hillsides punctuated with the bright, cheery colours of wildflowers.

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