Why Every Word Matters: Even the Crappy Ones
Encouragement for the frustrated writer.
Writing can be maddening when the words won’t come, or we don’t like what we write. Sometimes, it can feel like a waste of time to plot story events that we can’t see clearly because they’ll probably all change anyway.
And what about when we write a handful of chapters and realize the story started in the wrong place, or we didn’t quite have our main character’s trajectory as mapped out as we thought, and we need to start over?
Announcing The Write It Scared Podcast - Why I’m Doing It Scared!
This podcast for fiction writers has been a dream of mine for a long time and I want to share with you the why behind it.
The Mission: Tell the truth about why writing a novel is so hard by acknowledging that most writers grapple with two stories: the one they want to put on the page to the best of their ability and the often subconscious internal story that prevents them from doing it.
Navigating Emotions in Writing: How to Handle Personal Experiences and Emotional Wounds
Do you pour your heart into your writing?
Do your personal experiences, the wounds you carry, seep into your stories?
Ever find it challenging to write when your characters mirror the hardships you're going through or have faced in the past?
Today we’ll talk about the painful process of writing through messy emotions.
Welcome to Write It Scared
Welcome to Write It Scared Book Coaching. Introductions are in order. I'm Stacy Frazer: a formerly repressed creative soul turned novelist, certified book coach, and the creator of Write It Scared. I wanted to kick off the blog by sharing a bit about my story and my why.
Why Write It Scared
Why do I write it scared? Because I decided that taking a risk with my words was better than playing it safe.
I love the idea of writing it scared because the phrase completely captures the essence of my lived experience as a writer.