Writing Through Fear: a letter from a middle school author

I am working on a new project right now -- one that is shiny and full of the kind of promise that makes me both excited...and scared. Fear and I  are old friends when it comes to writing; we meet every book, right about now...as I hit Chapter 3 and wonder if this new idea is really is good as I hope it is, and if I'm really a good enough writer to pull it off.

So I was already thinking about that when I got an email this week from a middle school writer whose school I visited a while ago. I wr...