31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 28

Find Your Courage.

Writing can be a scary process. You are putting your words out there to be judged, and sometimes it can be hard to take the critiques.

It can also be scary if there is something you want to explore—an event from your past, for example—but you aren’t sure if you have the strength to go down into that dark place.

And then there is the fear that surfaces when you try something new.

Maybe you’ve had a modest amount of success writing nonfiction books but now you want to try your h...