What New Writers Need To Know About Fear

Do you want to become a writer?

When I was in my early twenties, I did too. I told people I wanted to write a book. There was just one problem. I wasn’t writing anything, at all.

I believed I wasn’t ready to write and that I needed some anointed mentor to pull me aside and say “Bryan, now is your time.”

I became jealous of the success of people around me and grew sick of my lack of progress.

So, I joined a fiction and non-fiction writing workshop in Dublin. On the second evening, the instructor...