Yes, yes, a million times YES. I recently finished my second book last year and started querying it, and I’m already paralyzed by this fear. I wrote Keeper and that was awesome, but what if I can’t do it again? What if that was it? What if that was my bout of creativity there in that one book, and now I’m trying to write the book of my dreams, the book that I would absolutely die to write, and what if I can’t do it?” “But I just have this fear that I’m a one-hit wonder. “I am crippled with this fear that I can’t write a book. But she admitted she’s made no progress since that announcement. She challenged herself to write the first draft of a new manuscript by June, before her baby is born. She said, “I’ve been on submission a couple months now, and I’m scared. “What if Keeper doesn’t find a home? What if it doesn’t get published?” “I guess what I lie awake thinking about is, what if it doesn’t happen?” Kim said. But to actually see that? Totally different. Of course, we all realize other writers have doubts and anxiety like we do. Yet when Kim exposed herself - cried on camera, ditched the bubbly-happy persona she usually shows us, and let herself be completely vulnerable - she sent a message that was way more powerful and inspiring than any “We can do it!” speech. We only want to say, “I made it to the other side, and whew, it was tough, BUT I DID IT.”
But nobody wants to say, “I’m in the middle of the messy part that could be my failure,” with everyone watching. It takes a lot of courage to say, “Hey, I might not pull this off.” It takes even more courage to take a step closer to success, in front of the whole world - like Kim has on YouTube - and then fall short.
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