to frame thy fearful fantasy

Writing tip. Fanatsizing is fine, worry* is counterproductive. By all means, imagine your acceptance speech at the National Book Awards. (Though, if the King of Sweden shows up, you might want to work on your research skills.) Try to avoid worrying that your plot, your genre, or that whole chapter where the narration is taken over by the main character's favorite pen will keep your book from being a best seller, winning the Printz, or proving to your sophomore-year English teacher that he was wrong to give your best short story a C minus. Fantasy feed the heart. Worry kills art. And now I have to fart.**


Footnotes
*Worry is not the same as fear, but that's a different topic.
**I had to overcome a pinch of worry about adding the third line, but I knew it was the right thing to do.