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If You’re Terrified to Write, I Am, Too.

Even if you just get nervous over stuff from time to time, I get you so much. But I can’t help you.

If you’re terrified to write, I am, too. Like, your struggle speaks to my soul.

If you’ve ever stayed up until four A.M. hovering over the send button. Or rechecked a sentence for hours until you were so over it you wanted to give up and watch Breaking Bad. But then you couldn’t enjoy Breaking Bad because you were thinking about the sentence. Or added and re-added a comma because you didn’t trust Grammarly or the experts on the internet. Or taken weeks to bleed even one hundred of the millions of words running through your head onto the page because you’re concerned with the internet blowing up in 2035 and it’s somehow making you immobile.

Plus a huge list of other things. Like not writing for a week because you get stalled on how many times you say “things”. And you think the worst part of it all is the “real” side of you is chill as hell.

If this sounds anything like you, or you even just get nervous over stuff from time to time, I get you so much. But I can’t help you.

When it comes to getting over anxiety, I have no idea what I’m doing, but whatever it is, it’s working little by little. I wanted to give…